Examination of the plant cytokinesis machinery reveals the rules of cellular asymmetry
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellSchmidt-Marcec, Parish and colleagues characterize members of the MACERATOR (MACET) family of proteins in the context of cell division.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad304
By Sharol Schmidt-Marcec, Alyssa Parish, Tetyana Smertenko, Matthew Hickey, Bernard M.A.G. Piette, Andrei Smertenko
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Parking the phragmoplast: division site positioning via cortical telophase microtubules
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBellinger and Uyehara et al. characterize a population of microtubules that contribute to division site positioning.
By Aimee N. Uyehara1 and Carolyn G. Rasmussen1
1Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California,…
Unrelated microtubule-binding proteins work together to position the new cell wall during cell division
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellMills et al. examine how microtubule-binding proteins localize to the site of cell division in plants https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac266
Alison Mills1, + and Carolyn G. Rasmussen1,2
1Biochemistry Graduate Group, University of California, Riverside, USA.
2Department of Botany and Plant Sciences,…