The nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio controls the cell-cycle period in compartmentalized frog egg extract

2025/08/26 by Liliana Piñeros, Nikita Frolov, Daniel Ruiz-Reynés +4 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #RNA Interference and Gene Delivery #Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects #Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2025.07.075

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• 🧵Does the nucleus set the cell cycle clock? 🕒 In frog egg extract “mini-cells” we see that as nuclei grow, cycles slow down. The period scales with the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio, across Xenopus [bsky, 19 points, 1 comments]