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    In cell biology a centriole is a cylindrical organelle composed mainly of a protein called tubulin. Centrioles are found in most eukaryotic cells, but...
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    called connecting piece contains one typical centriole and one atypical centriole such as the proximal centriole-like. The midpiece has a central filamentous...
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    in certain fly and flatworm species. Centrosomes are composed of two centrioles arranged at right angles to each other, and surrounded by a dense, highly...
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  • The proximal centriole-like or PCL is an atypical type of centriole found in the sperm cells of insects. The PCL name is due to some similarity to the...
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    in 1880. It is formed from a centriole and several additional protein structures, and is, essentially, a modified centriole. The basal body serves as a...
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    has a proximal centriole parallel to the base of the nucleus and distal centriole perpendicular to the previous one. The proximal centriole is present also...
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  • sperm cells have atypical centrioles. One of the two sperm centrioles of fruit fly exhibit the retention of "juvenile" centriole structure, which can be...
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    flagella. They are supported by a bundle of microtubules arising from a centriole, characteristically arranged as nine doublets surrounding two singlets...
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    is composed of two orthogonal cylindrical protein assemblies, called centrioles, which are surrounded by a protein dense amorphous cloud of pericentriolar...
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    is a more or less circular cell containing a nucleus, Golgi apparatus, centriole and mitochondria; by the end of the process, it has radically transformed...
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    and sperm follows and allows the sperm nucleus, the typical centriole, and atypical centriole that is attached to the flagellum, but not the mitochondria...
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  • attached at its base to a centriole known as the distal centriole and acts as a basal body. In most animals, this distal centriole act as a shock absorber...
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  • (such as an epithelial cell of respiratory tract) that produces multiple centrioles. Most cells in human body possess one primary cilium, a relatively small...
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    which makes up the part of the animal centrosome that surrounds the two centrioles. The PCM contains proteins responsible for microtubule nucleation and...
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    centrosome is made up of two cylinders called centrioles, oriented at right angles to each other. The centriole is formed from 9 main microtubules, each having...
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    through the ER and the Golgi apparatus. Centrosomes are composed of two centrioles which lie perpendicular to each other in which each has an organization...
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    new level of complexity and capability, with a nucleus, at least one centriole and cilium, facultatively aerobic mitochondria, sex (meiosis and syngamy)...
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    unikonts). This paired arrangement can also be seen in the organization of centrioles in typical animal cells. In spite of the name of the group, the common...
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    large vacuole that regulates turgor pressure, the absence of flagella or centrioles, except in the gametes, and a unique method of cell division involving...
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    kinases. The protein localizes to centrioles—complex microtubule-based structures found in centrosomes—and regulates centriole duplication during the cell cycle...
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    cells. Centrin-2 is a recombinant GFP-centrin-2 and centriole protein that localizes to centrioles throughout the cell cycle, while centrin-3 seems to...
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    also once thought to be related to centrioles, an organelle involved in cell division in eukaryotes. Asteroid Centriole Schaumann body Granulomatous diseases...
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  • mitotic spindle poles. Centrioles can act as markers for MTOCs in the cell. If they are freely distributed in the cytoplasm, centrioles can gather during differentiation...
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    microtubules on one of the centrioles, which turns into basal body. These microtubules form an axoneme. Later the centriole is modified in the process...
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    CNTROB gene. It is a centriole-associated protein that asymmetrically localizes to the daughter centriole, and is required for centriole duplication and cytokinesis...
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    snails. Some organelles also have structural inheritance, such as the centriole, and the cell itself (defined by the plasma membrane) may also be an example...
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    Riparbelli, M.G; Dallai, R; Mercati, D; Bu, Y; Callaini, G (2009). "Centriole symmetry: a big tale from small organisms". Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton...
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  • pressure, diffusion, concentration gradients, and membrane channels. Centrioles: Function to produce spindle fibers which are used to separate chromosomes...
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    "Prokaryotic origin of undulipodia. Application of the panda principle to the centriole enigma". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 503 (1): 187–197...
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    Apusomonas-like animals Gliding biciliates with two or three connectors between centrioles 32 Bigyra Two rings Stramenopiles with a double helix in ciliary transition...
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