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Microtubular Dysfunction and Male Infertility
The World Journal of Men's Health, 2020 Microtubules are the prime component of the cytoskeleton along with microfilaments. Being vital for organelle transport and cellular divisions during spermatogenesis and sperm motility process, microtubules ascertain functional capacity of sperm. Also,
Sezgin Gunes +7 more
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eLife, 2014 Cilia/flagella are assembled and maintained by the process of intraflagellar transport (IFT), a highly conserved mechanism involving more than 20 IFT proteins. However, the functions of individual IFT proteins are mostly unclear.
Hiroaki Ishikawa +11 more
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Journal of Developmental Biology, 2022 The development of multicellular organisms requires a tightly coordinated network of cellular processes and intercellular signalling. For more than 20 years, it has been known that primary cilia are deeply involved in the mediation of intercellular ...
Thorsten Pfirrmann, Christoph Gerhardt
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Parasite motility is critical for virulence of African trypanosomes. [PDF]
, 2018 African trypanosomes, Trypanosoma brucei spp., are lethal pathogens that cause substantial human suffering and limit economic development in some of the world's most impoverished regions.
Geng, Quanjie +6 more
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Boarder control on the IFT train
eLife, 2014 New details are revealed about the system that transports proteins to the tip of flagella during growth.
Cécile Fort, Philippe Bastin
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IC2 participates in the cooperative activation of outer arm dynein densely attached to microtubules
Cell Structure and Function, 2023 Ciliary outer-arm dynein (OAD) consists of heavy chains (HCs), intermediate chains (ICs), and light chains (LCs), of which HCs are the motor proteins that produce force.
Yusuke Kondo +6 more
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Functional modulation of IFT kinesins extends the sensory repertoire of ciliated neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans [PDF]
, 2006 The diversity of sensory cilia on Caenorhabditis elegans neurons allows the animal to detect a variety of sensory stimuli. Sensory cilia are assembled by intraflagellar transport (IFT) kinesins, which transport ciliary precursors, bound to IFT particles,
Evans, James E. +6 more
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Second harmonic microscopy of axonemes
Optics Express, 2009 We performed Second Harmonic Microscopy of axonemes obtained from sea urchin sperm. Using polarization analysis and a trade-off between signal and photodamage, we were able to determine, for the first time to our knowledge, the nonlinear susceptibility chizxx/chixzx = 1.1+/-0.2 and chizzz/chixzx = 4+/-0.5 of axonemes.
Odin, Christophe +3 more
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Modulation of the asymmetry of sea urchin sperm flagellar bending by calmodulin [PDF]
, 1985 Sea urchin spermatozoa demembranated with Triton X-100 in the presence of EGTA, termed potentially asymmetric, generate asymmetric bending waves in reactivation solutions containing EGTA. After they are converted to the potentially symmetric condition by
Brokaw, C. J., Nagayama, S. M.
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Heat shock induces rapid resorption of primary cilia [PDF]
, 2012 Primary cilia are involved in important developmental and disease pathways, such as the regulation of neurogenesis and tumorigenesis. They function as sensory antennae and are essential in the regulation of key extracellular signalling systems.
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