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In neuroepithelial and retinal progenitors, a tightly controlled interplay among polarity regulators such as LGN, GPSM2, and Gαi ensures proper spindle positioning to balance self‐renewal and differentiation during mammalian development and tissue stratification."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_fs", "start_ref": "1", "end_ref": "3"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": " These studies underscore that precise spindle alignment—as orchestrated by spatially restricted complexes at the cell cortex—is critical for maintaining progenitor pools and determining cell fate.\n"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n\n"}, {"type": "p", "children": [{"type": "t", "text": "\nOther reports extend these principles to specialized sensory and epithelial systems. In inner ear hair cells, for example, the localization of proteins such as LGN, Gαi, and GPSM2 is essential for organizing the hair bundle architecture and ensuring proper actin dynamics in stereocilia elongation."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_fs", "start_ref": "4", "end_ref": "7"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": " Additionally, studies in mammary and retinal progenitors have demonstrated that the formation of protein complexes, including those formed by LGN and its partners, underlie the molecular basis of asymmetric fate decisions."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_fs", "start_ref": "8", "end_ref": "10"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n\n"}, {"type": "p", "children": [{"type": "t", "text": "\nA further layer of regulation is provided by factors that modulate the localization and stability of these spindle orientation components. 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