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Flies without centrioles.
Cell - 30 Jun 2006
Basto Renata, Lau Joyce, Vinogradova Tatiana, Gardiol Alejandra, Woods C Geoffrey, Khodjakov Alexey, Raff Jordan W
Abstract excerpt
Centrioles and centrosomes have an important role in animal cell organization, but it is uncertain to what extent they are essential for animal development. The Drosophila protein DSas-4 is related to the human microcephaly protein CenpJ and the C. elegans centriolar protein Sas-4. We show that DSas-4 is essential for centriole replication in flies. DSas-4 mutants start to lose centrioles during embryonic...
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