Centriole assembly: the origin of nine-ness.
Recent studies of the Chlamydomonas bld10 mutant have revealed that the ninefold symmetry of the centriole is set by the length of the cartwheel spokes, which fixes the diameter, and thereby the circumference, of the centriole.
Marshall
Wallace F
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Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California-San Francisco, 600 16th St., San Francisco, California, USA. wmarshall@biochem.ucsf.edu
D020418:Algal Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D002502:Centrioles / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002696:Chlamydomonas; D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism
D020418:Algal Proteins