Does the geometric design of centrioles imply their function?
作者:
Guenter Albrecht‐Buehler,
期刊:
Cell Motility
(WILEY Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 1,
issue 2
页码: 237-245
ISSN:0271-6585
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1002/cm.970010206
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
关键词: centrioles;symmetry;triplet blades;thermal fluctuations
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe paper suggests several principles of construction of a microscopically small device for locating the directions of signal sources in microscopic dimensions. It appears that the simplest and smallest device that is compatible with the scrambling influence of thermal fluctuations as are demonstrated by Brownian motion is a pair of cylinders oriented at right angles to each other. Nine equally spaced blades run in a pitched fashion along the mantle of each cylinder. The blades have a concave cross‐section and bend around the circumference of the cylinder in a certain rotational pattern. Considering the striking similarity of this hypothetical device with centrioles, the paper puts forward the conjecture that centrioles locate the direction of hypothetical signals inside cell
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