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Scaling of Subcellular Structures

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Marshall, Wallace F.·2020·Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

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As cells grow, the size and number of their internal organelles increase in order to keep up with increased metabolic requirements. Abnormal size of organelles is a hallmark of cancer and an important aspect of diagnosis in cytopathology. Most organelles vary in either size or number, or both, as a function of cell size, but the mechanisms that create this variation remain unclear. In some cases, organelle size appears to scale with cell size through processes of relative growth, but in others the size may be set by either active measurement systems or genetic programs that instruct organelle biosynthetic activities to create organelles of a size appropriate to a given cell type.

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Authors
Marshall, W. F.
Affiliations
University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Marshall, Wallace F.
Venue
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
Published
2020-10-06
Volume
36
Issue
1
Pages
219-236
ISSN
  • 1081-0706 (ISSN-L)
  • 1530-8995
OpenAlex
W3039274856
Cited by
54
References
87
Citations by year
2026: 13 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1
FWCI
0.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R35GM130327)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Cellular transport and secretion
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cancer and biochemical research
Keywords
cell size, relative growth, cancer, cytopathology
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Models, Biological, Subcellular Fractions, Organelles

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