Lydon, JE (2019) A liquid crystal model for mitotic cell division - and the enigma of centriole involvement in mitosis in animals but not plants. Liquid Crystals Today, 28 (4). pp. 86-95. ISSN 1358-314X
Abstract
There is a strategic difference between the process of cell division by mitosis in animal cells and that in cells of higher plants. One particularly puzzling feature is the absence of centrioles in plant cells, when they appear to be of central importance in the control of the process in animal cells. It is argued that in both cases the dividing cell uses the versatility of the liquid crystalline state of the mitotic cytoplasm created by the wide-scale assembly of microtubules prior to mitosis. It is not the centrioles per se which are vital – it is the director field of the mesophase which is crucial – and alternative procedures have been developed by plants and animals to create this. In both cases, they can be related to known spontaneous alignment states of liquid crystalline systems.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Mitosis, centrioles, microtubules, liquid crystalline phases, director field, phragmoplast |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2020 14:29 |
Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2020 14:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1358314x.2020.1726065 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:158965 |