Gradient Sensing: Engineering the Yeast Love Affair.
A new study in fission yeasts promotes the notion that transient polarity patches that wander the cell surface at the onset of mating are discrete agents of gradient sensing. This concept unexpectedly bridges the modes of gradient sensing in eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
The University of Edinburgh, School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Cell Biology, Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK. Electronic address: Andrew.Goryachev@ed.ac.uk.
Andrew B
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Goryachev
The University of Edinburgh, School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Cell Biology, Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK.
Marcin
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Leda
D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000502:physiology*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces