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Size control in mammalian cells involves modulation of both growth rate and cell cycle duration

Cadart, C; Monnier, S; Grilli, J; Saez, PJ; Srivastava, N; Attia, R; Terriac, E; ... Piel, M; + view all (2018) Size control in mammalian cells involves modulation of both growth rate and cell cycle duration. Nature Communications , 9 , Article 3275. 10.1038/s41467-018-05393-0. Green open access

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Abstract

Despite decades of research, how mammalian cell size is controlled remains unclear because of the difficulty of directly measuring growth at the single-cell level. Here we report direct measurements of single-cell volumes over entire cell cycles on various mammalian cell lines and primary human cells. We find that, in a majority of cell types, the volume added across the cell cycle shows little or no correlation to cell birth size, a homeostatic behavior called “adder”. This behavior involves modulation of G1 or S-G2 duration and modulation of growth rate. The precise combination of these mechanisms depends on the cell type and the growth condition. We have developed a mathematical framework to compare size homeostasis in datasets ranging from bacteria to mammalian cells. This reveals that a near-adder behavior is the most common type of size control and highlights the importance of growth rate modulation to size control in mammalian cells.

Type: Article
Title: Size control in mammalian cells involves modulation of both growth rate and cell cycle duration
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05393-0
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05393-0
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Lab for Molecular Cell Bio MRC-UCL
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060348
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