title: Memorizing Shape to Orient Cell Division.
abstract: A century ago, Oscar Hertwig discovered that cells orient their cleavage plane orthogonal to their long axis. Reporting recently in Nature, Bosveld et al. (2016) shed light on how, showing that NuMA/Mud localization at tricellular junctions provides mitotic cells with the memory of interphase shape used to orient cleavage plane.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Institute of Genetics, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Michel
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Institute of Genetics, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: christian.dahmann@tu-dresden.de.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dahmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D048430:Cell Shape; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000166:cytology*; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D005260:Female; D007365:Intercellular Junctions; D007399:Interphase; D008297:Male; D008938:Mitosis