The elusive cytostatic factor in the animal egg
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
- Vol. 1 (3) , 228-231
- https://doi.org/10.1038/35043096
Abstract
While animal eggs await fertilization, their cell cycle needs to be halted. The molecule responsible for this arrest--the cytostatic factor--was first described in 1971. But its identity was not revealed until 1989, and even now questions remain about this elusive factor.Keywords
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