Germ fate determinants protect germ precursor cell division by reducing septin and anillin levels at the cell division plane
Résumé
Animal cell cytokinesis, or the physical division of one cell into two, is thought to be driven by constriction of an actomyosin contractile ring at the division plane. The mechanisms underlying cell type-specific differences in cytokinesis remain unknown. Germ cells are totipotent cells that pass genetic information to the next generation. Previously, using formin cyk-1 (ts) mutant Caenorhabditis elegans 4-cell embryos, we found that the P2 germ precursor cell is protected from cytokinesis failure and can divide with greatly reduced F-actin levels at the cell division plane. Here, we identified two canonical germ fate determinants required for P2-specific cytokinetic protection: PIE-1 and POS-1. Neither has been implicated previously in cytokinesis. These germ fate determinants protect P2 cytokinesis by reducing the accumulation of septin UNC-59 and anillin ANI-1 at the division plane, which here act as negative regulators of cytokinesis. These findings may provide insight into the regulation of cytokinesis in other cell types, especially in stem cells with high potency.
Mots clés
differential interference contrast dsRNA
double stranded ribonucleic acid EB1
end binding 1 EBP-2
microtubule end binding protein-2 F-actin
filamentous actin formin
differential interference contrast
dsRNA
double stranded ribonucleic acid
EB1
end binding 1
EBP-2
microtubule end binding protein-2
F-actin
filamentous actin
formin
Domaines
Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]
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