Helping daughters succeed: asymmetric distribution of glucose transporter mRNA

Rapidly proliferating cells growing by glucose fermentation must first transport glucose into the cell. Both budding yeast and human tumor cells utilize members of a conserved family of glucose transporters. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Stahl et al (2019) reveal that budding yeast cells confer a growth advantage to their daughters using a novel mechanism, the asymmetric distribution to the daughter cell of the mRNA for a specific glucose transporter.

Source: EMBO Journal - May 14, 2019 Category: Molecular Biology Authors: O'Donnell, A. F., Schmidt, M. C. Tags: Cell Cycle, Membrane & Intracellular Transport, Metabolism News [amp ] Views Source Type: research