Dysfunctions of the tiny cell processes (primary cilia) of the pancreatic beta cells could be a cause of type 2 diabetes.

About halfway through, the microtubules wind around each other, producing a directionality that was consistent across all cilia analyzed. Its effect on cilia function remains unclear, Hughes noted. By ...

Microtubules are cylindrical polymers composed ... and crosslinking mass spectrometry. Cilia assembly relies on cargo trains that move bidirectionally on separate tubules of the ciliary ...

To study the movement of cilia, Louis Woodhams and Phil Bayly’s team built a model that was an approximation of the structure of the flagellar axoneme, the bundle of microtubules that make up ...

Motile cilia are composed of stable populations of microtubules called doublet microtubules. There is a large subset of proteins that localize on the inside of these microtubules that we hypothesize ...