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XB-ART-59819
bioRxiv 2023 Jun 08; doi: 10.1101/2023.06.08.544077.
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Neighbor cells restrain furrowing during epithelial cytokinesis.

Landino J , Misterovich E , Chumki S , Miller AL .


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UNLABELLED: Cytokinesis challenges epithelial tissue homeostasis by generating forces that pull on neighboring cells via cell-cell junctions. Previous work has shown that junction reinforcement at the furrow in Xenopus laevis epithelia regulates the speed of furrowing 1 . This suggests the cytokinetic array that drives cell division is subject to resistive forces from epithelial neighbor cells. We show here that contractility factors accumulate in neighboring cells near the furrow during cytokinesis. Additionally, increasing neighbor cell stiffness, via ɑ-actinin overexpression, or contractility, through optogenetic Rho activation in one neighbor cell, slows or asymmetrically pauses furrowing, respectively. Notably, optogenetic stimulation of neighbor cell contractility on both sides of the furrow induces cytokinetic failure and binucleation. We conclude that forces from the cytokinetic array in the dividing cell are carefully balanced with restraining forces generated by neighbor cells, and neighbor cell mechanics regulate the speed and success of cytokinesis. HIGHLIGHTS: Neighboring cells assemble actomyosin arrays adjacent to the cytokinetic furrowOverexpression of an F-actin cross-linker in neighbor cells slows furrowingOptogenetic activation of contractility in one neighbor pauses furrow ingressionHyper-contractility in both neighbors restrains furrowing & cells fail cytokinesis.

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Genes referenced: actn1 rho

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Arnold, Rho GTPases and actomyosin: Partners in regulating epithelial cell-cell junction structure and function. 2017, Pubmed