Loading AI tools
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pericentriolar material (PCM, sometimes also called pericent matrix) is a highly structured,[1] dense mass of protein which makes up the part of the animal centrosome that surrounds the two centrioles. The PCM contains proteins responsible for microtubule nucleation and anchoring[2] including γ-tubulin, pericentrin and ninein.
Although the PCM appears amorphous by electron microscopy, super-resolution microscopy finds that it is highly organized. The PCM have 9-fold symmetry that mimics the symmetry of the centriole.[citation needed] Some PCM proteins are organized such that one end of the protein is found near the centriole and the other end is farther away from the centriole. The PCM size is dynamic during the cell cycle. After cell division, the PCM size is reduced in a process named centrosome reduction.[3] During the G2 phase of the cell cycle, the PCM grows in size in a process named centrosome maturation.
According to the Gene Ontology, the following human proteins are associated with the PCM :
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.