{"id":328862,"date":"2017-06-12T11:55:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/06\/170612115554.htm"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:55:54","slug":"splitting-cells-how-a-dynamic-protein-machinery-executes-the-final-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=328862","title":{"rendered":"Splitting cells: How a dynamic protein machinery executes &#8216;the final cut&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day billions of cells die in our body and need to be replaced by newly dividing cells. Cell division is a beautifully orchestrated process that involves multiple critical steps. At the very end, \u201ccellular abscission\u201d splits the membrane and thereby gives birth to two daughter cells. Abscission is executed by a protein machinery named ESCRT-III. Insights into the function of ESCRT-III are also interesting for many other biological processes \u2013 as this machinery also pinches off viruses from the host cell membrane, and seals holes in cellular and nuclear membranes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day billions of cells die in our body and need to be replaced by newly dividing cells. Cell division is a beautifully orchestrated process that involves multiple critical steps. At the very end, &ldquo;cellular abscission&rdquo; splits the membrane and thereby gives birth to two daughter cells. Abscission is executed by a protein machinery named ESCRT-III. Insights into the function of ESCRT-III are also interesting for many other biological processes &ndash; as this machinery also pinches off viruses from the host cell membrane, and seals holes in cellular and nuclear membranes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328863,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328862\/revisions\/328863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}