title: Centrosome size: scaling without measuring.
abstract: Centrosome size is controlled by a limiting component mechanism in which a fixed quantity of precursor protein is divided up among however many centrosomes are present. This simple scheme explains size control and scaling of centrosomes relative to cell volume.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. wallace.marshall@ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Wallace F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Marshall
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000196:embryology*; D018385:Centrosome; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian / Q000378:metabolism*