bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.18.388652; this version posted November 18, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. The centriolar satellite protein Cfap53/Ccdc11 facilitates the formation of the first zygotic microtubule organizing center in the zebrafish embryo. Sven Willekers1, Federico Tessadori1, Babet van der Vaart2, Heiko Henning3, Riccardo Stucchi2,4, Maarten Altelaar4, Bernard A.J. Roelen5, Anna Akhmanova2, Jeroen Bakkers1 1. Hubrecht Institute-KNAW, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2. Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands 3. EQuine Sciences, Department Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 4. Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands. 5. Embryology, Anatomy and Physiology, Department Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Corresponding author:
[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.18.388652; this version posted November 18, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Abstract In embryos from most animal species a zygotic centrosome is assembled by the centriole derived from the sperm cell and pericentriolar proteins present in the oocyte.