Actin cables and comet tails organize mitochondrial networks in mitosis
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Actin cables and comet tails organize mitochondrial networks in mitosis
Abstract
Symmetric cell division requires the even partitioning of genetic information and cytoplasmic contents between daughter cells. Whereas the mechanisms coordinating the segregation of the genome are well known, the processes that ensure organelle segregation between daughter cells remain less well understood1. Here we identify multiple actin assemblies with distinct but complementary roles in mitochondrial organization and inheritance in mitosis. First, we find a dense meshwork of subcortical actin cables assembled throughout the mitotic cytoplasm. This network scaffolds the endoplasmic reticulum and organizes three-dimensional mitochondrial positioning to ensure the equal segregation of mitochondrial mass at cytokinesis. Second, we identify a dynamic wave of actin filaments reversibly assembling on the surface of mitochondria during mitosis. Mitochondria sampled by this wave are enveloped within actin clouds that can spontaneously break symmetry to form elongated comet tails. Mitochondrial comet tails promote randomly directed bursts of movement that shuffle mitochondrial position within the mother cell to randomize inheritance of healthy and damaged mitochondria between daughter cells. Thus, parallel mechanisms mediated by the actin cytoskeleton ensure both equal and random inheritance of mitochondria in symmetrically dividing cells.
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Actin(g) in mitochondria inheritance.Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2021 May;22(5):303. doi: 10.1038/s41580-021-00360-y. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2021. PMID: 33723436 No abstract available.
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Stir it up: The role of actin in mitochondrial mixing during mitosis.Dev Cell. 2021 Apr 19;56(8):1080-1082. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.03.028. Dev Cell. 2021. PMID: 33878298
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