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Nature Cell Biology 4, E119–E120 (1 May 2002) | doi:10.1038/ncb0502-e119

Conspiracy to disarm APC in interphase

Hartmut C. Vodermaier & Jan-Michael Peters

Cell cycle progression is mediated by waves of Cdk activity. DNA synthesis and mitosis require high Cdk activities, whereas cytokinesis precedes a period of low Cdk activity, typically extending throughout G1 phase, that allows the formation of pre-replication complexes which enable the next round of DNA replication.