Sentences with phrase «before anaphase»

The role of DNA topology in holding sister chromatids together before anaphase was investigated by analyzing the structure of a small circular minichromosome in cell cycle (cdc) mutants of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

In the majority of cells arrested after S phase but before anaphase, sister minichromosome molecules are not topologically interlocked with each other.