title: Functional protofilament numbering of ciliary, flagellar, and centriolar microtubules.
abstract: This article discusses the current state of knowledge about the evolutionarily conserved structure of ciliary, flagellar and centriolar microtubules, and formally proposes a functional numbering convention for their protofilaments.
authors: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
authors: Richard W
authors: RW
authors: Linck
authors: Raymond E
authors: RE
authors: Stephens
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002502:Centrioles / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D002923:Cilia / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D004398:Dyneins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D005407:Flagella / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D008868:Microtubule Proteins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological
chemical_list: D008868:Microtubule Proteins; D004398:Dyneins