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Examination of the plant cytokinesis machinery reveals the rules of cellular asymmetry

Schmidt-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 Institute…

Parking the phragmoplast: division site positioning via cortical telophase microtubules

Bellinger 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

Mills 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,…