Causes and consequences of centrosome abnormalities in cancer

SA Godinho, D Pellman - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Centrosome amplification is a hallmark of cancer. However, despite significant progress in
recent years, we are still far from understanding how centrosome amplification affects …

The centrosome cycle: centriole biogenesis, duplication and inherent asymmetries

EA Nigg, T Stearns - Nature cell biology, 2011 - nature.com
Centrosomes are microtubule-organizing centres of animal cells. They influence the
morphology of the microtubule cytoskeleton, function as the base for the primary cilium and …

[HTML][HTML] Centrioles, centrosomes, and cilia in health and disease

EA Nigg, JW Raff - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
Centrioles are barrel-shaped structures that are essential for the formation of centrosomes,
cilia, and flagella. Here we review recent advances in our understanding of the function and …

3D-structured illumination microscopy provides novel insight into architecture of human centrosomes

KF Sonnen, L Schermelleh, H Leonhardt… - Biology …, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Centrioles are essential for the formation of cilia and flagella. They also form the core of the
centrosome, which organizes microtubule arrays important for cell shape, polarity, motility …

Direct interaction of Plk4 with STIL ensures formation of a single procentriole per parental centriole

M Ohta, T Ashikawa, Y Nozaki, H Kozuka-Hata… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Formation of one procentriole next to each pre-existing centriole is essential for centrosome
duplication, robust bipolar spindle assembly and maintenance of genome integrity …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis of the 9-fold symmetry of centrioles

D Kitagawa, I Vakonakis, N Olieric, M Hilbert, D Keller… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
The centriole, and the related basal body, is an ancient organelle characterized by a
universal 9-fold radial symmetry and is critical for generating cilia, flagella, and centrosomes …

The centrosome and its duplication cycle

J Fu, IM Hagan, DM Glover - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The centrosome was discovered in the late 19th century when mitosis was first described.
Long recognized as a key organelle of the spindle pole, its core component, the centriole …

Towards a molecular architecture of centriole assembly

P Gönczy - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
The centriole is an evolutionarily conserved macromolecular structure that is crucial for the
formation of flagella, cilia and centrosomes. The ultrastructure of the centriole was first …

Centrosomes and cancer: revisiting a long-standing relationship

P Gönczy - Nature reviews cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Over a century ago, centrosome aberrations were postulated to cause cancer by promoting
genome instability. The mechanisms governing centrosome assembly and function are …

Structures of SAS-6 suggest its organization in centrioles

M van Breugel, M Hirono, A Andreeva, H Yanagisawa… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Centrioles are cylindrical, ninefold symmetrical structures with peripheral triplet microtubules
strictly required to template cilia and flagella. The highly conserved protein SAS-6 …