The centrosome cycle: centriole biogenesis, duplication and inherent asymmetries

EA Nigg, T Stearns - Nature cell biology, 2011 - nature.com
Centrosomes are microtubule-organizing centres of animal cells. They influence the
morphology of the microtubule cytoskeleton, function as the base for the primary cilium and …

Causes and consequences of centrosome abnormalities in cancer

SA Godinho, D Pellman - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Centrosome amplification is a hallmark of cancer. However, despite significant progress in
recent years, we are still far from understanding how centrosome amplification affects …

Mechanisms to suppress multipolar divisions in cancer cells with extra centrosomes

M Kwon, SA Godinho, NS Chandhok… - Genes & …, 2008 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Multiple centrosomes in tumor cells create the potential for multipolar divisions that can lead
to aneuploidy and cell death. Nevertheless, many cancer cells successfully divide because …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution: Tracing the origins of centrioles, cilia, and flagella

Z Carvalho-Santos, J Azimzadeh… - The Journal of cell …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Centrioles/basal bodies (CBBs) are microtubule-based cylindrical organelles that nucleate
the formation of centrosomes, cilia, and flagella. CBBs, cilia, and flagella are ancestral …

Subdiffraction-resolution fluorescence microscopy reveals a domain of the centrosome critical for pericentriolar material organization

V Mennella, B Keszthelyi, KL McDonald, B Chhun… - Nature cell …, 2012 - nature.com
As the main microtubule-organizing centre in animal cells, the centrosome has a
fundamental role in cell function. Surrounding the centrioles, the pericentriolar material …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis of the 9-fold symmetry of centrioles

D Kitagawa, I Vakonakis, N Olieric, M Hilbert, D Keller… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
The centriole, and the related basal body, is an ancient organelle characterized by a
universal 9-fold radial symmetry and is critical for generating cilia, flagella, and centrosomes …

Direct interaction of Plk4 with STIL ensures formation of a single procentriole per parental centriole

M Ohta, T Ashikawa, Y Nozaki, H Kozuka-Hata… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Formation of one procentriole next to each pre-existing centriole is essential for centrosome
duplication, robust bipolar spindle assembly and maintenance of genome integrity …

Towards a molecular architecture of centriole assembly

P Gönczy - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
The centriole is an evolutionarily conserved macromolecular structure that is crucial for the
formation of flagella, cilia and centrosomes. The ultrastructure of the centriole was first …

Structures of SAS-6 suggest its organization in centrioles

M van Breugel, M Hirono, A Andreeva, H Yanagisawa… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Centrioles are cylindrical, ninefold symmetrical structures with peripheral triplet microtubules
strictly required to template cilia and flagella. The highly conserved protein SAS-6 …

The centrosome and its duplication cycle

J Fu, IM Hagan, DM Glover - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The centrosome was discovered in the late 19th century when mitosis was first described.
Long recognized as a key organelle of the spindle pole, its core component, the centriole …