Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
EMBO J. 2019 May 15;38(10). doi: 10.15252/embj.2019102063. Epub 2019 Apr 29.
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 , Stahl (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.
快速增殖的细胞通过葡萄糖发酵生长,必须首先将葡萄糖运输到细胞内。出芽酵母和人类肿瘤细胞都利用一组保守的葡萄糖转运蛋白家族成员。在本期的《细胞》杂志中,Stahl (2019)揭示了出芽酵母细胞通过一种新的机制将特定葡萄糖转运蛋白的 mRNA 不对称地分配到子细胞中,从而赋予其女儿细胞生长优势。