An interphase contractile ring reshapes primordial germ cells to allow bulk cytoplasmic remodeling

Abstract

Maniscalco et al. show that primordial germ cells remodel by assembling a nonmitotic contractile ring. Ring formation requires the RhoGEF ECT-2 and its activator NOP-1 but not centralspindlin, which activates ECT-2 to position the cytokinetic contractile ring during mitosis.