These solitary and apparently nonfunctional cilia are far more widespread than the motile type. For example, in humans, only a few cell types have motile cilia, namely sperm, epithelia cells in ...

Essential functions for life that range from swimming in single cell protists to mucus clearance in humans require the generation of long range flows with a specific topology. To generate these large ...

Construction of motile cilia/flagella requires cytoplasmic preassembly of axonemal dyneins before transport into cilia. Axonemal dyneins have various subtypes, but the roles of each dynein subtype and ...

How cilia talk» Primary (non-motile) cilia use membrane proteins in their role as a coordinator of the ... In this webinar, Alex George will discuss how he used high-dimensional single-cell profiling ...

In this process, it self-organizes into a multicellular motile ... of a human hair. This transition is pivotal, as the reduction in viscosity enables the outward-facing orientation of cilia ...