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Studying Centriole Duplication and Elongation in Human Cells

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Centrioles assemble centrosomes and cilia/flagella, which are microtubule-based structures with key roles in cell division, polarity, motility, and signaling. Centriole biogenesis is a tightly regulated process, and deregulation of centriole numbers and structure can have dramatic consequences for cellular function and integrity. However, their small size poses a challenge to study them. Here, we describe protocols that allow the identification and assessment of true centrioles and that provide straightforward strategies to study the role of new candidate proteins in centriole duplication and elongation.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to E. Nigg for cell lines. C.A.M. Lopes and C. Peneda are funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/124127/2016 and PD/BD/128004/2016, respectively). The M. Bettencourt-Dias laboratory is funded by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the European Research Council (ERC-2015-CoG-683258).

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  1. Catarina Peneda and Carla A.M. Lopes contributed equally to this work.

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    Catarina Peneda, Carla A. M. Lopes & Mónica Bettencourt-Dias

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Peneda, C., Lopes, C.A.M., Bettencourt-Dias, M. (2020). Studying Centriole Duplication and Elongation in Human Cells. In: Maiato, H. (eds) Cytoskeleton Dynamics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2101. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0219-5_10

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