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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Cell Science Année : 2023

Reduction of cortical pulling at mitotic entry facilitates aster centration

Anne Rosfelter
Ghislain de Labbey
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Sébastien Schaub
Daniel Gonzalez Suarez
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Hervé Turlier
David Burgess
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Alex Mcdougall

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Although it has been studied for more than a century, the question of how one cell divides into two equal parts is still not fully resolved. Zygotes have provided much of the mechanistic insight into how the mitotic apparatus finds the center of the cell since the centrally-located mitotic apparatus is created from a large sperm aster that forms at the cortex and thus far from the zygote center. Here we show that in ascidians, the sperm aster extends throughout the cytoplasm during interphase yet remains located near the cortex and does not migrate towards the zygote center. It is only at mitotic entry, when the sperm aster has duplicated and the mitotic apparatus is being assembled, that most of the migration and centration occurs. This temporal pattern of centration behavior is mirrored by primate zygotes (including human). The current mechanisms of aster centration include cytoplasmic pulling that scale with microtubule (MT) length, MT pushing against the proximal cortex or MT-based cortical pulling. However, it is not yet known whether and how these 3 mechanisms are coordinated to prevent aster migration during interphase and trigger migration at mitotic entry. By monitoring quantitatively all three mechanisms (cytoplasmic pulling, pushing and cortical pulling) we have discovered that cortical pulling is switched off as the zygote enters mitosis while both cytoplasmic pulling and proximal cortical pushing remain active. Physical simulations could recapitulate both the static and migratory aspects of sperm aster and mitotic apparatus behavior. We therefore surmise that the reduction in cortical pulling at mitotic entry represents a switch that allows proximal cortical pushing forces and cytoplasmic pulling forces to center the nascent mitotic apparatus.
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hal-04042440 , version 1 (23-03-2023)

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Anne Rosfelter, Ghislain de Labbey, Janet Chenevert, Rémi Dumollard, Sébastien Schaub, et al.. Reduction of cortical pulling at mitotic entry facilitates aster centration. Journal of Cell Science, 2023, 137 (7), ⟨10.1101/2023.03.21.533625⟩. ⟨hal-04042440⟩
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