Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Over-elongation of centrioles in cancer promotes centriole amplification and chromosome missegregation

  • Gaëlle Marteil,
  • Adan Guerrero,
  • André F. Vieira,
  • Bernardo P. de Almeida,
  • Pedro Machado,
  • Susana Mendonça,
  • Marta Mesquita,
  • Beth Villarreal,
  • Irina Fonseca,
  • Maria E. Francia,
  • Katharina Dores,
  • Nuno P. Martins,
  • Swadhin C. Jana,
  • Erin M. Tranfield,
  • Nuno L. Barbosa-Morais,
  • Joana Paredes,
  • David Pellman,
  • Susana A. Godinho,
  • Mónica Bettencourt-Dias

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03641-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Cancer cells are characterised by abnormalities in the number of centrosomes and this phenotype is linked with tumorigenesis. Here the authors report centriole length deregulation in a subset of cancer cell lines and suggest a link with subsequent alterations in centriole numbers and chromosomal instability.