Fission yeast: in shape to divide.

Hachet O; Bendezú FO; Martin SG

doi:10.1016/j.ceb.2012.10.001

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Fission yeast: in shape to divide.

Hachet O Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Biophore Building, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bendezú FO
Martin SG

2012-11-07

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Current opinion in cell biology. - 2012

English How are cell morphogenesis and cell cycle coordinated? The fission yeast is a rod-shaped unicellular organism widely used to study how a cell self-organizes in space and time. Here, we discuss recent advances in understanding how the cell acquires and maintains its regular rod shape and uses it to control cell division. The cellular body plan is established by microtubules, which mark antipodal growth zones and medial division. In turn, cellular dimensions are defined by the small GTPase Cdc42 and downstream regulators of vesicle trafficking. Yeast cells then repetitively use their simple rod shape to orchestrate the position and timing of cell division.

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