Alice Meunier

Cyclin O is necessary for multiciliated cells to enter their differentiation cell cycle variant and allows the massive amplification of centrioles, which serve as basal bodies for cilia nucleation.

The paper identifies a new cell cycle variant in multiciliated cells that enables centriole amplification without DNA replication or mitosis.

This study shows the MCC cell cycle variant accelerates centriole biogenesis by overlapping two cycles to produce multiple mature centrioles without cell division.

The paper shows that choroid plexus cilia undergo axoneme resorption through microtubule destabilization, controlled by polyglutamylation and spastin, and is conserved in human samples.

This study shows that actin-based nuclear deformations are essential for multiciliated ependymal cell differentiation in mice.