Comparative biology of cell division in the fission yeast clade.

Comparative biology of cell division in the fission yeast clade. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2015 Aug 8;28:18-25 Authors: Gu Y, Oliferenko S Abstract Cytokinesis must be regulated in time and space in order to preserve genome integrity during cell proliferation and to allow daughter cells to adopt distinct fates and geometries during differentiation. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe has been a popular model organism for understanding spatiotemporal regulation of cytokinesis in a symmetrically dividing cell. Recent work on another member of the same genus, Schisozaccharomyces japonicus, suggests that S. pombe may have evolved an unusual division site placement mechanism based on a recently duplicated anillin paralog. Here we discuss an extraordinary evolutionary plasticity of cytokinesis within the fission yeast clade and argue that the comparative cell biology approach may provide functional insights beyond those afforded by scrutinizing individual model species. PMID: 26263485 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Opinion in Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: Tags: Curr Opin Microbiol Source Type: research