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SUBMITTER: Ichikawa M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5418579 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ichikawa Muneyoshi M Liu Dinan D Kastritis Panagiotis L PL Basu Kaustuv K Hsu Tzu Chin TC Yang Shunkai S Bui Khanh Huy KH
Nature communications 20170502
Cilia are ubiquitous, hair-like appendages found in eukaryotic cells that carry out functions of cell motility and sensory reception. Cilia contain an intriguing cytoskeletal structure, termed the axoneme that consists of nine doublet microtubules radially interlinked and longitudinally organized in multiple specific repeat units. Little is known, however, about how the axoneme allows cilia to be both actively bendable and sturdy or how it is assembled. To answer these questions, we used cryo-el ...[more]