title: Cilia grow by taking a bite out of the cell.
abstract: Autophagy and primary cilium assembly have long been known to be induced by the same conditions in cultured cells. Two recent studies in Nature-Tang et al. (2013) and Pampliega et al. (2013)-link the two processes, suggesting that a specialized autophagy pathway near the basal body regulates cilium assembly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Nathan W
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: Pierce
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: nachury@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Maxence V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Nachury
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001343:Autophagy / Q000502:physiology*; D002502:Centrioles / Q000378:metabolism*; D002923:Cilia / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins