Basal body

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• Wikipedia basal body A basal body is an organelle formed from a centriole, a short cylindrical array of microtubules.
• First seen over a century ago, the centriole/basal body is still one of the most enigmatic structures in the cell.
• If there are two basal bodies and one cilium, the unciliated basal body is always anterior to the ciliated one e.
• If there are two basal bodies and one cilium, the unciliated basal body is always anterior to the ciliated one.
• The structures of basal bodies from two mutants defective in the hook assembly were found to be indistinguishable from wild-type basal bodies, suggesting that the assembly of the basal body is independent of the hook or filament assembly.

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