Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Human microcephaly protein RTTN interacts with STIL and is required to build full-length centrioles

  • Hsin-Yi Chen,
  • Chien-Ting Wu,
  • Chieh-Ju C. Tang,
  • Yi-Nan Lin,
  • Won-Jing Wang,
  • Tang K. Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00305-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Mutations in many centriolar protein-encoding genes cause primary microcephaly. Here the authors show that human microcephaly protein RTTN directly interacts with STIL and acts downstream of STIL-mediated centriole assembly, contributing to building full-length centrioles