Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Cep295 is a conserved scaffold protein required for generation of a bona fide mother centriole

  • Yuki Tsuchiya,
  • Satoko Yoshiba,
  • Akshari Gupta,
  • Koki Watanabe,
  • Daiju Kitagawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12567
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Newly formed centrioles mature into functional mother centrioles. Here the authors show that the scaffolding protein Cep295 is recruited to the procentriole assembly site and assists daughter centriole assembly and daughter-to-mother centriole conversion.