title: Ciliary secretion: switching the cellular antenna to 'transmit'.
abstract: Cilia are microtubule/membrane-based protrusions that mediate cell motility or transduce sensory information. New work in Chlamydomonas demonstrates that cilia can also act as secretory organelles by budding enzyme-containing vesicles from the flagellar membrane for post-mitotic hatching of daughters from the mother cell wall.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA 94143-2200, USA.
authors.forename: Prachee
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Avasthi
authors.forename: Wallace
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Marshall
mesh_terms: D055252:Cell-Derived Microparticles; D002696:Chlamydomonas / Q000378:metabolism*; D002923:Cilia / Q000378:metabolism*