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Function and Dynamics of PKD2 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Flagella

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To analyze the function of ciliary polycystic kidney disease 2 (PKD2) and its relationship to intraflagellar transport (IFT), we cloned the ...
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The Drosophila Pericentrin-Like Protein Is Essential for Cilia/Flagella Function, but Appears to Be Dispensable for Mitosis

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Centrosomes consist of a pair of centrioles surrounded by an amorphous pericentriolar material (PCM). Proteins that contain a ...
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The discovery of a third form of flagella-mediated motility shown by symbiotic bacteria

Many species of swimming bacteria have a rotary structure called a "flagellum," consisting of more than twenty different kinds of proteins. By rotating their flagellar filaments and gaining propulsion ...
Nature

CryoEM structure of the Methanospirillum hungatei archaellum reveals structural features distinct from the bacterial flagellum and type IV pilus

Archaea use flagella known as archaella—distinct both in protein composition and structure from bacterial flagella—to drive cell motility, but the structural basis of this function is unknown. Here, ...