The Mammalian Golgi Regulates Numb Signaling in Asymmetric Cell Division by Releasing ACBD3 during Mitosis Yan Zhou,1 Joshua B. Atkins,1,2 Santiago B. Rompani,1,3 Daria L. Bancescu,1 Petur H. Petersen,1,4 Haiyan Tang,1,2,5 Kaiyong Zou,1 Sinead B. Stewart,1 and Weimin Zhong1,2,* 1 Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology 2 Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program Yale University, P.O. Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA 3 Present address: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. 4 Present address: Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 5 Present address: George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC 20052, USA. *Correspondence:
[email protected] DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2007.02.037 SUMMARY Drosophila melanogaster, for example, sensory organ precursor (SOP) cells divide asymmetrically to produce Mammalian neural progenitor cells divide a IIA and a IIB cell (Gho et al., 1999). Drosophila Numb asymmetrically to self-renew and produce (d-Numb), a cytosolic signaling protein, distributes sym- a neuron by segregating cytosolic Numb pro- metrically during interphase but becomes localized to teins primarily to one daughter cell. Numb sig- only one-half of the cell membrane after the SOP cell en- naling specifies progenitor over neuronal fates ters mitosis and, consequently, is segregated primarily but, paradoxically, also promotes neuronal into the IIB cell (Rhyu et al., 1994). This asymmetric d-Numb distribution is essential for distinguishing the differentiation. Here we report that ACBD3 is two daughter cells; d-Numb loss causes both daughter a Numb partner in cell-fate specification.