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Syncytial Assembly Lines: Consequences of Multinucleate Cellular Compartments for Fungal Protein Synthesis
Alex Mayer1, Grace McLaughlin2,3, Amy Gladfelter2
1Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Abstract:
Fast growth and prodigious cellular outputs make fungi powerful tools in biotechnology. Recent modeling work has exposed efficiency gains associated with dividing the labor of transcription over multiple nuclei, and experimental innovations are opening new windows on the capacities and adaptations that allow nuclei to behave autonomously or in coordination while sharing a single, common cytoplasm. Although the motivation of our review is to motivate and connect recent work toward a greater understanding of fungal factories, we use the analogy of the assembly line as an organizing idea for studying coordinated gene expression, generally.
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