TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting the role of microtubules in C. elegans polarity
AU - Motegi, Fumio
AU - Seydoux, Geraldine
PY - 2007/11/5
Y1 - 2007/11/5
N2 - Cells must break symmetry to acquire polarity. Microtubules have been implicated in the induction of asymmetry in several cell types, but their role in the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote, a classic polarity model, has remained uncertain. One study (see Tsai and Ahringer on p. 397 of this issue) brings new light to this problem by demonstrating that severe loss of microtubules impairs polarity onset in C. elegans.
AB - Cells must break symmetry to acquire polarity. Microtubules have been implicated in the induction of asymmetry in several cell types, but their role in the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote, a classic polarity model, has remained uncertain. One study (see Tsai and Ahringer on p. 397 of this issue) brings new light to this problem by demonstrating that severe loss of microtubules impairs polarity onset in C. elegans.
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U2 - 10.1083/jcb.200710062
DO - 10.1083/jcb.200710062
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17984317
AN - SCOPUS:35948949434
SN - 0021-9525
VL - 179
SP - 367
EP - 369
JO - Journal of Cell Biology
JF - Journal of Cell Biology
IS - 3
ER -