Contact regulation of cell division orientation

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Channel: Cell Press · 2018 · Science & Technology

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In this video from Sugioka and Bowerman, a bead (right, magenta) is sufficient to induce the C. elegans blastomere "AB" (cell on the left) to turn as it divides, just as it does in the normal context, when it is in contact with the "P1" blastomere.

Check out the paper at https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(18)30505-7

Sugioka, K., and Bowerman, B. (2018). Combinatorial Contact Cues Specify Cell Division Orientation by Directing Cortical Myosin Flows. Developmental Cell. 26.

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