Open AccessMitotic cells get a stress test
Author(s) -
Ben Short
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb.2142if
Subject(s) - biology , mitosis , microbiology and biotechnology , signal transduction
Two studies identify a signaling pathway that arrests cells that are having difficulty dividing.Before they enter mitosis, cells duplicate their centrosomes so that they can form a proper, bipolar mitotic spindle. Cells with only one centrosome—or even no centrosomes at all—can still divide,
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