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Rsph4a is essential for the triplet radial spoke head assembly of the mouse motile cilia.
PLoS genetics - 1 Mar 2020
Yoke Hiroshi, Ueno Hironori, Narita Akihiro, Sakai Takafumi, Horiuchi Kahoru, Shingyoji Chikako, Hamada Hiroshi, Shinohara Kyosuke
Abstract excerpt
Motile cilia/flagella are essential for swimming and generating extracellular fluid flow in eukaryotes. Motile cilia harbor a 9+2 arrangement consisting of nine doublet microtubules with dynein arms at the periphery and a pair of singlet microtubules at the center (central pair). In the central system, the radial spoke has a T-shaped architecture and regulates the motility and motion pattern of cilia. Recent...
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