Organelle size: A cilium length signal regulates IFT cargo loading

Junmin Pan, William J. Snell

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Abstract

Cilia grow by assembling structural precursors delivered to their tips by intraflagellar transport. New work on ciliary length control indicates that, during ciliary growth, cilia send a length signal to the cytoplasm that regulates cargo loading onto the constitutively trafficking intraflagellar transport machinery.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)R75-R78
JournalCurrent Biology
Volume24
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 20 2014

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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