In summary, the proper level of glutamylation appears to be critical for generating proper motion in motile cilia or flagella across ciliated model organisms, which may be determined by whether ...

Existence of cilia in the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA ... as a result of meiotic prophase arrest and sperm flagella malformation, respectively. Mechanistically, XAP5 positively regulates the ...

However, biological motors have existed for millions of years in microorganisms. Among these, many bacterial species have tail-like structures--called flagella--that spin around to propel themselves ...

Cilia and flagella are slender cylindrical organelles whose bending waves propel cells through fluids and drive fluids across epithelia. The bending waves are generated by dynein motor proteins, ...

twista is about 10 micrometers long and moves by using its whip-like flagellum. It is named after its distinguishing ... Ancoracysta is a protist, a group of unicellular, eukaryotic organisms that sit ...

A process called intraflagellar transport (IFT for short) is responsible for flagellum construction in eukaryotic cells. Protein complexes called IFT trains carry the building blocks that make up ...