DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202403003 ISSN: 0021-9525
Building the centrosome: PLK-1 controls multimerization of SPD-5
Paul Conduit- Cell Biology
Centrosome maturation relies on the assembly of an underlying molecular scaffold. In this issue of JCB, Rios et al. (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202306142) use cross-linking mass spectrometry to reveal how PLK-1 phosphorylation promotes intermolecular SPD-5 self-association that is essential for scaffold formation.