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Nature Cell Biology 7, 858 - 859 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ncb0905-858

The hand that rocks the spindle

Chay T. Kuo1 & Yuh-Nung Jan1

  1. Chay T. Kuo and Yuh-Nung Jan are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, 1550 4th Street, Room GD484E, San Francisco, CA 94143-0725, USA. e-mail: ynjan@itsa.ucsf.edu


Asymmetric cell division is a fundamental process by which cells give rise to progenies with different fates. Although this mechanism is well studied in the worm and fly, mammalian asymmetric cell division is poorly understood. The finding that Gbetagamma and AGS3 can control mitotic spindle orientation and progenitor cell fates during mouse cortical development suggests evolutionarily conserved roles in asymmetric cell division.

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