Cell division: Naegleria bundles up for mitosis

Amy N Sinclair; Christopher L de Graffenried

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.079

Cell division: Naegleria bundles up for mitosis

Curr Biol. 2022 Mar 28;32(6):R269-R271. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.079.

Authors

Amy N Sinclair¹, Christopher L de Graffenried²

Affiliations

¹ Abveris, 480 Neponset Street Suite 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA.
² Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. Electronic address: christopher_degraffenried@Brown.edu.

PMID: 35349811
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.079

Abstract

How well do we understand the range of mechanisms used by eukaryotes for mitosis? A new study in a highly divergent eukaryote shows that unusual tubulin isoforms can create a mitotic spindle exclusively out of microtubule bundles.

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MeSH terms

Microtubules
Mitosis
Naegleria*
Spindle Apparatus
Tubulin / genetics

Substances

Tubulin