Peripheral astral microtubules ensure asymmetric furrow positioning in neural stem cells
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2021-10-26
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Elsevier Inc
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Abstract
Neuroblast division is characterized by asymmetric positioning of the cleavage furrow, resulting in a large difference in size between the future daughter cells. In animal cells, furrow placement and assembly are governed by centralspindlin that accumulates at the equatorial cell cortex of the future cleavage site and at the spindle midzone. In neuroblasts, these two centralspindlin populations are spatially and temporally separated. A leading pool is located at the basal cleavage site and a second pool accumulates at the midzone before traveling to the cleavage site. The cortical centralspindlin population requires peripheral astral microtubules and the chromosome passenger complex for efficient recruitment. Loss of this pool does not prevent cytokinesis but enhances centralspindlin signaling at the midzone, leading to equatorial furrow repositioning and decreased size asymmetry. These data show that basal furrow positioning in neuroblasts results from a competition between different centralspindlin pools in which the cortical pool is dominant.
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Centralspindlin complex, Drosophila neural stem cell, asymmetric cell division, basal furrow positioning, cell size, centrosome, cytokinesis, myosin, peripheral astral microtubules, spindle midzone, Animals, Cytokinesis, Drosophila melanogaster, Microtubules, Neural Stem Cells
Citation
Thomas A, Gallaud E, Pascal A, Serre L, Arnal I, Richard-Parpaillon L, Savoian MS, Giet R. (2021). Peripheral astral microtubules ensure asymmetric furrow positioning in neural stem cells.. Cell Rep. 37. 4. (pp. 109895-).