Division-plane positioning: microtubules strike back.
Two groups have recently developed physical techniques to manipulate the position of the nucleus in fission yeast. Their studies reveal how microtubules confine the nucleus to the cell center, and indicate how the position of the cleavage plane during cell division is coordinated with that of the nucleus.
Mendoza
Manuel
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Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Caren
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Barral
Yves
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D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology*; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000502:physiology*; D020090:Chromosome Segregation / Q000502:physiology*; D008846:Micromanipulation / Q000379:methods; D008870:Microtubules / Q000502:physiology*; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
C489694:Mid1 protein, S pombe; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins