title: Asymmetric localization and function of cell-fate determinants: a fly's view.
abstract: One mechanism to generate daughter cells with distinct fates is the asymmetric inheritance of regulatory proteins, leading to differential gene regulation in the daughter cells. This mode of cell division is termed 'asymmetric cell division.' The nervous system of the fly employs asymmetric cell division, both in the central nervous system, to generate neural precursors, neurons and glial cells; and in the peripheral nervous system, to create sensory organs that are composed of multiple cell types. These cell lineages are excellent models to examine the gene expression program that leads to fate acquisition, the cell-fate determinants that control these programs and how these determinants, in turn, are distributed through cell polarity machinery.
authors.affiliation: Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS UMR 8542, 46, rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: Allison J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Bardin
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Le Borgne
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schweisguth
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000502:physiology*; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology; D004175:Diptera; D004330:Drosophila / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins