Myosin II

Two heads and assembles into bipolar filaments

Small and non-processive

Function- Contraction

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Cdc25B is act as a starter phosphatase that initiates CDK1 activation

Cdc25C is the workhorse phosphatase that activates the vast majority of cyclin-CDK1 complexes

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Yeast cells with a defective wee1+ gene activate mitotic CDKs prematurely and premature entry into mitosis (smaller than normal cells

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Fission yeast cells carrying a CDK1 mutation in which the tyrosine-15 residue is replaced by phenylalanine

show the same premature mitotic CDK activation and entry into mitosis.

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Until Mitotic CDKs is not active, the activatory protein phosphatase, Cdc25, is phosphorylated, bound and inhibited by phosphoserine/threonine-binding protein 14-3-3.