Establishment of Septum Orientation in a Morphologically Altered Fission Yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe Free

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Summary: Among the spheroidal fission-yeast () cells resulting from aculeacin A treatment were found cells whose putative growth axis and polarity differed from those of their progenitor, that is they were changed in the orientation of their septum. The ratio of cell length (measured perpendicular to the septum plane) to septum diameter of these cells equalled or exceeded unity without exception, whether the septum orientation changed or not and whether the cellular shape was spherical, spheroidal or cylindrical. From these results we conclude that the septum is always oriented perpendicular to the plane including the longest axis of the cell even if the morphology is irregular or the new septum has become perpendicular to the previous septum. There is no cellular region forbidden to new septa.

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