Emerging Picture of Deuterosome-Dependent Centriole Amplification in MCCs
Multiciliated cells (MCCs) have several hair-like structures called cilia, which are required to propel substances on their surface.A cilium is organized from a basal body which resembles a hollow microtubule structure called a centriole.In terminally differentiated MCCs, hundreds of new basal bodies/centrioles are formed via two parallel pathways: