RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Asymmetric nuclear division of neural stem cells contributes to the formation of sibling nuclei with different identities
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2020.08.29.272724
DO 10.1101/2020.08.29.272724
A1 Chantal Roubinet
A1 Ian J. White
A1 Buzz Baum
YR 2020
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/08/29/2020.08.29.272724.abstract
AB Cellular diversity in multicellular organisms is often generated via asymmetric divisions. In the fly, for example, neural stem cells divide asymmetrically to generate a large self-renewing stem cell and a smaller sibling that differentiates. Efforts to understand how these different cell fates are generated have focused on the asymmetric segregation of cortically-localised transcription factors at division, which preferentially enter single daughter cell nuclei to change their fate. However, we find that the nuclear compartment in these cells remains intact throughout mitosis and is asymmetrically inherited, giving rise to sibling nuclei that differ profoundly in size, envelope composition and fate markers. These data reveal the importance of considering nuclear remodelling during stem cell divisions, and show how daughter cell fates depend on the coordination of the asymmetric inheritance of cortical fate markers with asymmetric nuclear division.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.