Planar cell polarity acts through septins to control collective cell movement and ciliogenesis.

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Published in Science on July 29, 2010

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Su Kyoung Kim1, Asako Shindo, Tae Joo Park, Edwin C Oh, Srimoyee Ghosh, Ryan S Gray, Richard A Lewis, Colin A Johnson, Tania Attie-Bittach, Nicholas Katsanis, John B Wallingford

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1: Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

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