Endoplasmic-reticulum-mediated microtubule alignment governs cytoplasmic streaming

Kenji Kimura , Alexandre Mamane , Tohru Sasaki , Kohta Sato , Jun Takagi , Ritsuya Niwayama , Lars Hufnagel , Yuta Shimamoto , J.-F. Joanny (1) , Seiichi Uchida , Akatsuki Kimura

1 PCC - Physico-Chimie-Curie

Through imaging and theoretical modelling, Kimura et al. discover that endoplasmic reticulum flow determines microtubule alignment to promote cytoplasmic streaming of yolk granules in Caenorhabditis elegans zygotes.

Domaines: Physique [physics]

Kenji Kimura, Alexandre Mamane, Tohru Sasaki, Kohta Sato, Jun Takagi, et al.. Endoplasmic-reticulum-mediated microtubule alignment governs cytoplasmic streaming. Nature Cell Biology, 2017, 19 (4), pp.399-406. ⟨10.1038/ncb3490⟩. ⟨hal-03301398⟩