Centrioles, from which basal bodies are derived, act as anchoring sites for proteins that in turn anchor microtubules, and are known as the microtubule organizing center ( MTOC ).
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The ?-TuRC is typically found as the core functional unit in a microtubule organizing center ( MTOC ), such as the centrosome in animal cells or the fungi and algae.
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Unlike other heliozoans, the microtubules are not in any regular geometric array, there does not appear to be a microtubule organizing center, and there is no distinction between the outer and inner cytoplasm.
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An aggresome forms around the microtubule organizing center in Mediators such as p62 are believed to be involved in aggresome formation in sequestering omega-somes, which bind and increase the size of the aggresome.
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In this model, microtubule organizing centers are localized to the cell poles, their separation driven by microtubule polymerization and'sliding'of antiparallel spindle microtubules with respect to one another at the spindle midzone mediated by bipolar, plus-end-directed kinesins.
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In animal cells, virus particles are gathered by the microtubule-dependent aggregation of toxic or misfolded protein near the microtubule organizing center ( MTOC ), so the viroplasms of animal viruses are generally localized near the MTOC . MTOCs are not found in plant cells.
