Publications by Pierre Gönczy

Mechanisms of axoneme and centriole elimination in Naegleria gruberi

Pierre Gönczy, Graham Knott, Coralie Busso, Gabriela Garcia Rodriguez, Alexander Woglar, Mary-Claude Croisier-Coeytaux

The early branching eukaryote Naegleria gruberi can transform transiently from an amoeboid life form lacking centrioles and flagella to a flagellate life form where these elements are present, followed by reversion to the amoeboid state. The mechanisms imp ...

SPRINGERNATURE2024

Chemical Probe for Imaging of Polo-like Kinase 4 and Centrioles

Kai Johnsson, Pierre Gönczy, Luc Reymond, Georgios Hatzopoulos, Aleksandar Salim

Polo-like kinase (Plk4) is a serine/threonine-proteinkinase thatis essential for biogenesis of the centriole organelle and is enrichedat centrioles. Herein, we introduce Cen-TCO, a chemical probe basedon the Plk4 inhibitor centrinone, to image Plk4 and cen ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Extensive programmed centriole elimination unveiled in C. elegans embryos

Pierre Gönczy, Nils Kalbfuss

Centrioles are critical for fundamental cellular processes, including signaling, motility, and division. The extent to which centrioles are present after cell cycle exit in a developing organism is not known. The stereotypical lineage of Caenorhabditis ele ...

2023

Mapping of centriolar proteins onto the post-embryonic lineage of C. elegans

Pierre Gönczy, Nils Kalbfuss

Centrioles, together with the surrounding peri-centriolar material (PCM), constitute the centrosome, a major microtubule-organizing center of animal cells. Despite being critical in many cells for signaling, motility and division, centrioles can be elimina ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Tubulin engineering by semi-synthesis reveals that polyglutamylation directs detyrosination

Pierre Gönczy, Beat Fierz, Luc Reymond, Georgios Hatzopoulos, Cédric Pourroy, Po-Han Chang, Nora Guidotti, Ninad Dilip Agashe, Timothy Matthias Reichart, Eduard Hubert Theodoor Marius Ebberink

Microtubules, a critical component of the cytoskeleton, carry post-translational modifications (PTMs) that are important for the regulation of key cellular processes. Long-lived microtubules, in neurons particularly, exhibit both detyrosination of a-tubuli ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Sperm-contributed centrioles segregate stochastically into blastomeres of 4-cell stage Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

Pierre Gönczy, Fernando Romero Balestra

Whereas both sperm and egg contribute nuclear genetic material to the zygote in metazoan organisms, the inheritance of other cellular constituents is unequal between the 2 gametes. Thus, 2 copies of the centriole are contributed solely by the sperm to the ...

GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA2023

Grand canonical Brownian dynamics simulations of adsorption and self-assembly of SAS-6 rings on a surface

Pierre Gönczy, Niccolo Banterle

The Spindle Assembly Abnormal Protein 6 (SAS-6) forms dimers, which then self-assemble into rings that are critical for the nine-fold symmetry of the centriole organelle. It has recently been shown experimentally that the self-assembly of SAS-6 rings is st ...

AIP Publishing2023

CenFind: a deep-learning pipeline for efficient centriole detection in microscopy datasets

Pierre Gönczy, Georgios Hatzopoulos, Sahand Jamal Rahi, Martin Weigert

BackgroundHigh-throughput and selective detection of organelles in immunofluorescence images is an important but demanding task in cell biology. The centriole organelle is critical for fundamental cellular processes, and its accurate detection is key for a ...

BMC2023

Towards understanding centriole elimination

Pierre Gönczy, Nils Kalbfuss

Centrioles are microtubule-based structures crucial for forming flagella, cilia and centrosomes. Through these roles, centrioles are critical notably for proper cell motility, signalling and division. Recent years have advanced significantly our understand ...

Royal Soc2023

Dataset for "Extensive programmed centriole elimination unveiled in C. elegans embryos."

Pierre Gönczy, Nils Kalbfuss

Full dataset related to the publication "Extensive programmed centriole elimination unveiled in C. elegans embryos." ...

Zenodo2023