centriole

Also known as GO:0005814, centrioles

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A centriole is a tiny, cylindrical structure found in most animal cells that is made up of nine groups of three microtubules arranged in a ring pattern. Centrioles help organize the cell's internal skeleton and play an important role in dividing cells by helping to position the machinery that pulls apart chromosomes during cell division.

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Within Vinony's link graph, centriole is referenced by 222 other articles, and connects out to sperm, eukaryote and Angiosperms.

Vinony files it under Cell movement, Centrosome and Protein complexes.

Its subject is documented across 63 Wikipedia language editions.

Research

4,378 papers

Centriole length control.ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology · 2021Sharma A, Olieric N, Steinmetz MODOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2020.10.011
Towards understanding centriole elimination.ReviewOpen biology · 2023Kalbfuss N, Gönczy PDOI: 10.1098/rsob.230222
Centriole assembly at a glance.ReviewJournal of cell science · 2019Gönczy P, Hatzopoulos GNDOI: 10.1242/jcs.228833
Centriole structure.ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014Winey M, O'Toole EDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0457
Mechanisms underlying centriole stability.ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry · 2025Biven E, Wang JTDOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110869
Centriole Positioning: Not Just a Little Dot in the Cell.ReviewResults and problems in cell differentiation · 2019Roman AC, Garrido-Jimenez S, Diaz-Chamorro S et al.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23173-6_8
Centriole Biogenesis: Symmetry Breaking and Site Selection.ReviewTrends in cell biology · 2019Ignacio DP, Coffman VC, Dawes ATDOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2018.11.001
Centriole Duplication at the Crossroads of Cell Cycle Control and Oncogenesis.ReviewCells · 2025Prigent CDOI: 10.3390/cells14141094

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
Role in cell division
Cellular organization
Fertility
Ciliogenesis
Animal development
Centriole duplication
Origin
Etymology and pronunciation
Atypical centrioles
References

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In cell biology a centriole is a cylindrical organelle composed mainly of a protein called tubulin. Centrioles are found in most eukaryotic cells, but are not present in conifers (Pinophyta), flowering plants (angiosperms) and most fungi, and are only present in the male gametes of charophytes, bryophytes, seedless vascular plants, cycads, and Ginkgo. A bound pair of centrioles, surrounded by a highly ordered mass of dense material, called the pericentriolar material (PCM), makes up a structure called a centrosome.

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