Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

A centrosome interactome provides insight into organelle assembly and reveals a non-duplication role for Plk4

  • Brian J. Galletta,
  • Carey J. Fagerstrom,
  • Todd A. Schoborg,
  • Tiffany A. McLamarrah,
  • John M. Ryniawec,
  • Daniel W. Buster,
  • Kevin C. Slep,
  • Gregory C. Rogers,
  • Nasser M. Rusan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12476
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The centrosome is a large intracellular structure that serves as the microtubule-organising center, but how it is accurately assembled is not known. Here the authors generate a ‘domain-level’ centrosome interactome and show that Plk4 positions the essential centriole component Asterless by phosphorylating Cep135.