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Embryonic polarity: protein stability in asymmetric cell division
1Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, 97403, USA. bbowerman@molbio.uoregon.edu
Current Biology : CB
|September 21, 2000
Abstract:
Recent work on pattern formation in Caenorhabditis elegans has uncovered a new mechanism of asymmetric cell division: the cytoplasm is polarized by cortical proteins, and this polarization then influences the stability of other maternally expressed proteins that in turn determine early embryonic cell fates.