July 29, 2019
Keio University
Tohoku University
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
The University of Tokyo
A research group—comprising Senior Assistant Professor Kei Fujiwara and Professor Nobuhide Doi from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University; Hayato Mitsuyama, a third-year student in the Doctoral Programs at the Graduate School of Science and Technology; Associate Professor Natsuhiko Yoshinaga from the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR) at Tohoku University and Deputy Director of the AIST-Tohoku University Mathematics for Advanced Materials-Open Innovation Laboratory (MathAM-OIL) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST); and Associate Professor Miho Yanagisawa from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at The University of Tokyo—has successfully elucidated the conditions for stably generating protein waves that determine the cell division plane in microorganisms within artificial cells that mimic them.
Further development of these findings is expected to lead to a deeper understanding of the dynamic protein positioning mechanisms within cells and the creation of artificial cells capable of autonomous cell division. The details of this research will be published in the online edition of the scientific journal "eLife" on July 30, 2019 (British Summer Time).
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