ReviewTrends in cell biology2015
How Cells Measure Length on Subcellular Scales.
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- Single-cell-resolution map of human retinal pigment epithelium helps discover subpopulations with differential disease sensitivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Biomolecular Basis of Cellular Consciousness via Subcellular Nanobrains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- A heterologous in-cell assay for investigating intermicrovillar adhesion complex interactions reveals a novel protrusion length-matching mechanism.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020Article
- Organelle size scaling over embryonic development.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Developmental biology · 2020Review
- Double Tubular Contractile Structure of the Type VI Secretion System Displays Striking Flexibility and Elasticity.Journal of bacteriology · 2019Article
- A neuronal MAP kinase constrains growth of a Caenorhabditis elegans sensory dendrite throughout the life of the organism.PLoS genetics · 2018Article
- Microtubule Dynamics Scale with Cell Size to Set Spindle Length and Assembly Timing.Developmental cell · 2018Article
- A homeostatic clock sets daughter centriole size in flies.The Journal of cell biology · 2018Article
- Scaling of cytoskeletal organization with cell size inMolecular biology of the cell · 2017Article
- Protein transport in growing and steady-state cilia.Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) · 2017Review
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Abstract
Cells are not just amorphous bags of enzymes, but precise and complex machines. With any machine, it is important that the parts be of the right size, yet our understanding of the mechanisms that control size of cellular structures remains at a rudimentary level in most cases. One problem with studying size control is that many cellular organelles have complex 3D structures that make their size hard to measure. Here we focus on linear structures within cells, for which the problem of size control reduces to the problem of length control. We compare and contrast potential mechanisms for length control to understand how cells solve simple geometry problems.
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