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Nature Cell Biology 9, 1221 - 1222 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ncb1107-1221

Holding back TOR advances mitosis

Thomas W. Sturgill1 & Michael N. Hall2

  1. Thomas W. Sturgill is at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
  2. Michael N. Hall is at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH4056 Basel, Switzerland.
    e-mail: m.hall@unibas.ch


The control of cell size through the coordination of cell growth and division is a longstanding fundamental problem. A study in fission yeast shows that TOR controls entry into mitosis through the MAP kinase Sty1 and so provides a molecular mechanism for the control of cell size.

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