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Department of Biological Sciences, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 and
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
| Rapidly proliferating cells growing by glucose fermentation must first transport glucose into the cell. Both budding yeast and human tumor cells utilize members of a conserved family of glucose transporters. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Stahl et al (2019) reveal that budding yeast cells confer a growth advantage to their daughters using a novel mechanism, the asymmetric distribution to the daughter cell of the mRNA for a specific glucose transporter. |
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