title: To avoid a mating mishap, yeast focus and communicate.
abstract: During mating, yeast cells must perforate their rigid cell walls at the right place to allow cell-cell fusion. In this issue, Dudin et al. (2015; J. Cell Biol. http://dx.doi.org/jcb.201411124) image mating fission yeast cells with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. The authors find that when mating cells come into contact, they form aster-like actin structures that direct cell wall remodeling precisely to the point of contact.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
authors.forename: Allison W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: McClure
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 Daniel.lew@duke.edu.
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Lew
mesh_terms: D002473:Cell Wall / Q000378:metabolism*; D006867:Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism*; D024701:Myosin Type V / Q000378:metabolism*; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000166:cytology*; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins; C490025:fus1 protein, S pombe; D006867:Hydrolases; D024701:Myosin Type V
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