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SUBMITTER: Ounjai P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3580003 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ounjai Puey P Kim Keunhwan D KD Liu Haichuan H Dong Ming M Tauscher Andrew N AN Witkowska H Ewa HE Downing Kenneth H KH
Current biology : CB 20130131 4
Ciliary compartmentalization plays pivotal roles in ciliogenesis and in various signaling pathways. Here we describe a structure at the ciliary base that appears to have all the features required for compartmentalization and which we thus call the "ciliary partitioning system" (CPS). This complex consists of the terminal plate, which serves as a cytosolic "ciliary pore complex" (CPC), and a membrane region well suited to serve as a diffusion barrier. The CPC is a plate-shaped structure containin ...[more]