Medical Hypotheses
Volume 52, Issue 1 , Pages 13-14, January 1999

Centriole duplication and orientation in mammalian cells

USC Medical School, 2001 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, U.S.A.

Received 2 July 1997; accepted 8 September 1997.

Abstract 

The paper discusses a mechanism for semiconservative duplication of a pair of centrioles from a single parent. The mechanism accounts for the (transient or permanent) quasi-orthogonality of mammalian centrioles.

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PII: S0306-9877(97)90616-2

doi:10.1054/mehy.1997.0616

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 52, Issue 1 , Pages 13-14, January 1999