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Imaging intraflagellar transport in mammalian primary cilia.
Methods in cell biology - 1 Jan 2009
Besschetnova Tatiana Y, Roy Barnali, Shah Jagesh V
Abstract excerpt
The primary cilium is a specialized organelle that projects from the surface of many cell types. Unlike its motile counterpart it cannot beat but does transduce extracellular stimuli into intracellular signals and acts as a specialized subcellular compartment. The cilium is built and maintained by the transport of proteins and other biomolecules into and out of this compartment. The trafficking machinery for the...
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