Cilia Train Spotting

Dev Cell. 2016 Jun 6;37(5):395-6. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.05.016.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biological Transport
  • Caenorhabditis elegans / metabolism
  • Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / metabolism
  • Cilia / metabolism*
  • Flagella / metabolism