Primary Recipient

THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$101,171.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Septins were discovered as mutants defective in cell division in budding yeast. Septins form filaments and compose a ring at the neck between mother and bud. Septins function as a diffusion barrier for mother / bud polarity and as a scaffold for regulator