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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
卷 24, 期 2, 页码 155-+出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41556-021-00826-3
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- National Institutes of Health: National Institute of General Medical Sciences [GM139970-01]
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [HD102013-01A1]
This study reveals that heterogeneities in cell polarity in early mouse embryos trigger the assembly of a highly asymmetric spindle organization, determining the fate of inner cell mass versus trophectoderm.
During mammalian development, the first asymmetric cell divisions segregate cells into inner and outer positions of the embryo to establish the pluripotent and trophectoderm lineages. Typically, polarity components differentially regulate the mitotic spindle via astral microtubule arrays to trigger asymmetric division patterns. However, early mouse embryos lack centrosomes, the microtubule-organizing centres (MTOCs) that usually generate microtubule asters. Thus, it remains unknown whether spindle organization regulates lineage segregation. Here we find that heterogeneities in cell polarity in the early 8-cell-stage mouse embryo trigger the assembly of a highly asymmetric spindle organization. This spindle arises in an unusual modular manner, forming a single microtubule aster from an apically localized, non-centrosomal MTOC, before joining it to the rest of the spindle apparatus. When fully assembled, this 'monoastral' spindle triggers spatially asymmetric division patterns to segregate cells into inner and outer positions. Moreover, the asymmetric inheritance of spindle components causes differential cell polarization to determine pluripotent versus trophectoderm lineage fate. Pomp et al. show that specification of inner cell mass versus trophectoderm depends on a monoastral spindle that drives asymmetric cell division patterns, arguing against a stochastic inner-outer lineage segregation in the mouse embryo.
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