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Anthrax receptors position the spindle

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Spindle orientation plays a pivotal role in tissue morphogenesis. An asymmetric anthrax receptor cap is revealed to promote activation of a formin to orient the spindle along the planar cell polarity (PCP) axis in zebrafish dorsal epiblast cells.

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Figure 1: Polarity at different scales.
Figure 2: Possible mechanisms for spindle orientation and centring.

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  1. Nicolas Minc and Matthieu Piel are at Institut Curie, UMR 144 CNRS/IC, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France,

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