Cilia Train Spotting.
Cilium formation depends on intraflagellar transport trains that move bidirectionally along ciliary microtubules. Reporting in Science, Stepanek and Pigino (2016) employ correlative light and electron microscopy in algae to determine the ultrastructure of anterograde and retrograde trains and discover that these trains avoid collision by running on B- and A-tubules, respectively.
School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Stefanie
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Kuhns
School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Electronic address: oliver.blacque@ucd.ie.
Oliver E
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Blacque
D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000378:metabolism; D016825:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / Q000378:metabolism; D002923:Cilia / Q000378:metabolism*; D005407:Flagella / Q000378:metabolism