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Ma R, Chen L, Hu N, Caplan S, Hu G. Cilia and Extracellular Vesicles in Brain Development and Disease. Biol Psychiatry 2024; 95:1020-1029. [PMID: 37956781 PMCID: PMC11087377 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Revised: 10/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/05/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
Abstract
Primary and motile cilia are thin, hair-like cellular projections from the cell surface involved in movement, sensing, and communication between cells. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small membrane-bound vesicles secreted by cells and contain various proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids that are delivered to and influence the behavior of other cells. Both cilia and EVs are essential for the normal functioning of brain cells, and their malfunction can lead to several neurological diseases. Cilia and EVs can interact with each other in several ways, and this interplay plays a crucial role in facilitating various biological processes, including cell-to-cell communication, tissue homeostasis, and pathogen defense. Cilia and EV crosstalk in the brain is an emerging area of research. Herein, we summarize the detailed molecular mechanisms of cilia and EV interplay and address the ciliary molecules that are involved in signaling and cellular dysfunction in brain development and diseases. Finally, we discuss the potential clinical use of cilia and EVs in brain diseases.
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- Rong Ma
- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China
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- Millard West High School, Omaha, Nebraska
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska.
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- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska.
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Brinzer RA, Winter AD, Page AP. The relationship between intraflagellar transport and upstream protein trafficking pathways and macrocyclic lactone resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2024; 14:jkae009. [PMID: 38227795 PMCID: PMC10917524 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Revised: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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Parasitic nematodes are globally important and place a heavy disease burden on infected humans, crops, and livestock, while commonly administered anthelmintics used for treatment are being rendered ineffective by increasing levels of resistance. It has recently been shown in the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans that the sensory cilia of the amphid neurons play an important role in resistance toward macrocyclic lactones such as ivermectin (an avermectin) and moxidectin (a milbemycin) either through reduced uptake or intertissue signaling pathways. This study interrogated the extent to which ciliary defects relate to macrocyclic lactone resistance and dye-filling defects using a combination of forward genetics and targeted resistance screening approaches and confirmed the importance of intraflagellar transport in this process. This approach also identified the protein trafficking pathways used by the downstream effectors and the components of the ciliary basal body that are required for effector entry into these nonmotile structures. In total, 24 novel C. elegans anthelmintic survival-associated genes were identified in this study. When combined with previously known resistance genes, there are now 46 resistance-associated genes that are directly involved in amphid, cilia, and intraflagellar transport function.
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- Robert A Brinzer
- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland G61 1QH, UK
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland G61 1QH, UK
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland G61 1QH, UK
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Verma DK, Malhotra H, Woellert T, Calvert PD. Hydrophobic interaction between the TM1 and H8 is essential for rhodopsin trafficking to vertebrate photoreceptor outer segments. J Biol Chem 2023; 299:105412. [PMID: 37918805 PMCID: PMC10687059 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 10/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
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A major unsolved question in vertebrate photoreceptor biology is the mechanism of rhodopsin transport to the outer segment. In rhodopsin-like class A G protein-coupled receptors, hydrophobic interactions between C-terminal α-helix 8 (H8), and transmembrane α-helix-1 (TM1) have been shown to be important for transport to the plasma membrane, however whether this interaction is important for rhodopsin transport to ciliary rod outer segments is not known. We examined the crystal structures of vertebrate rhodopsins and class A G protein-coupled receptors and found a conserved network of predicted hydrophobic interactions. In Xenopus rhodopsin (xRho), this interaction corresponds to F313, L317, and L321 in H8 and M57, V61, and L68 in TM1. To evaluate the role of H8-TM1 hydrophobic interactions in rhodopsin transport, we expressed xRho-EGFP where hydrophobic residues were mutated in Xenopus rods and evaluated the efficiency of outer segment enrichment. We found that substituting L317 and M57 with hydrophilic residues had the strongest impact on xRho mislocalization. Substituting hydrophilic amino acids at positions L68, F313, and L321 also had a significant impact. Replacing L317 with M resulted in significant mislocalization, indicating that the hydrophobic interaction between residues 317 and 57 is exquisitely sensitive. The corresponding experiment in bovine rhodopsin expressed in HEK293 cells had a similar effect, showing that the H8-TM1 hydrophobic network is essential for rhodopsin transport in mammalian species. Thus, for the first time, we show that a hydrophobic interaction between H8 and TM1 is critical for efficient rhodopsin transport to the vertebrate photoreceptor ciliary outer segment.
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- Dipesh Kumar Verma
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
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Winans AM, Friedmann D, Stanley C, Xiao T, Liu TL, Chang CJ, Isacoff EY. Ciliary localization of a light-activated neuronal GPCR shapes behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2311131120. [PMID: 37844228 PMCID: PMC10614621 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2311131120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023] Open
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Many neurons in the central nervous system produce a single primary cilium that serves as a specialized signaling organelle. Several neuromodulatory G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) localize to primary cilia in neurons, although it is not understood how GPCR signaling from the cilium impacts circuit function and behavior. We find that the vertebrate ancient long opsin A (VALopA), a Gi-coupled GPCR extraretinal opsin, targets to cilia of zebrafish spinal neurons. In the developing 1-d-old zebrafish, brief light activation of VALopA in neurons of the central pattern generator circuit for locomotion leads to sustained inhibition of coiling, the earliest form of locomotion. We find that a related extraretinal opsin, VALopB, is also Gi-coupled, but is not targeted to cilia. Light-induced activation of VALopB also suppresses coiling, but with faster kinetics. We identify the ciliary targeting domains of VALopA. Retargeting of both opsins shows that the locomotory response is prolonged and amplified when signaling occurs in the cilium. We propose that ciliary localization provides a mechanism for enhancing GPCR signaling in central neurons.
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- Amy M. Winans
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated BioImaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA94720
- Weill Neurohub, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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Tian X, Zhao H, Zhou J. Organization, functions, and mechanisms of the BBSome in development, ciliopathies, and beyond. eLife 2023; 12:e87623. [PMID: 37466224 DOI: 10.7554/elife.87623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023] Open
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The BBSome is an octameric protein complex that regulates ciliary transport and signaling. Mutations in BBSome subunits are closely associated with ciliary defects and lead to ciliopathies, notably Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Over the past few years, there has been significant progress in elucidating the molecular organization and functions of the BBSome complex. An improved understanding of BBSome-mediated biological events and molecular mechanisms is expected to help advance the development of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for BBSome-related diseases. Here, we review the current literature on the structural assembly, transport regulation, and molecular functions of the BBSome, emphasizing its roles in cilium-related processes. We also provide perspectives on the pathological role of the BBSome in ciliopathies as well as how these can be exploited for therapeutic benefit.
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- Xiaoyu Tian
- Center for Cell Structure and Function, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Cell Biology in Universities of Shandong, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Center for Cell Structure and Function, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Cell Biology in Universities of Shandong, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Center for Cell Structure and Function, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Cell Biology in Universities of Shandong, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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Ning K, Bhuckory MB, Lo CH, Sendayen BE, Kowal TJ, Chen M, Bansal R, Chang KC, Vollrath D, Berbari NF, Mahajan VB, Hu Y, Sun Y. Cilia-associated wound repair mediated by IFT88 in retinal pigment epithelium. Sci Rep 2023; 13:8205. [PMID: 37211572 PMCID: PMC10200793 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35099-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023] Open
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Primary cilia are conserved organelles that integrate extracellular cues into intracellular signals and are critical for diverse processes, including cellular development and repair responses. Deficits in ciliary function cause multisystemic human diseases known as ciliopathies. In the eye, atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a common feature of many ciliopathies. However, the roles of RPE cilia in vivo remain poorly understood. In this study, we first found that mouse RPE cells only transiently form primary cilia. We then examined the RPE in the mouse model of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome 4 (BBS4), a ciliopathy associated with retinal degeneration in humans, and found that ciliation in BBS4 mutant RPE cells is disrupted early during development. Next, using a laser-induced injury model in vivo, we found that primary cilia in RPE reassemble in response to laser injury during RPE wound healing and then rapidly disassemble after the repair is completed. Finally, we demonstrated that RPE-specific depletion of primary cilia in a conditional mouse model of cilia loss promoted wound healing and enhanced cell proliferation. In summary, our data suggest that RPE cilia contribute to both retinal development and repair and provide insights into potential therapeutic targets for more common RPE degenerative diseases.
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- Ke Ning
- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
- Palo Alto Veterans Administration, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1651 Page Mill Road, Rm 2220, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA.
- Palo Alto Veterans Administration, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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Melluso A, Secondulfo F, Capolongo G, Capasso G, Zacchia M. Bardet-Biedl Syndrome: Current Perspectives and Clinical Outlook. Ther Clin Risk Manag 2023; 19:115-132. [PMID: 36741589 PMCID: PMC9896974 DOI: 10.2147/tcrm.s338653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
The Bardet Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare inherited disorder considered a model of non-motile ciliopathy. It is in fact caused by mutations of genes encoding for proteins mainly localized to the base of the cilium. Clinical features of BBS patients are widely shared with patients suffering from other ciliopathies, especially autosomal recessive syndromic disorders; moreover, mutations in cilia-related genes can cause different clinical ciliopathy entities. Besides the best-known clinical features, as retinal degeneration, learning disabilities, polydactyly, obesity and renal defects, several additional clinical signs have been reported in BBS, expanding our understanding of the complexity of its clinical spectrum. The present review aims to describe the current knowledge of BBS i) pathophysiology, ii) clinical manifestations, highlighting both the most common and the less described features, iii) current and future perspective for treatment.
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- Andrea Melluso
- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy,Biogem Scarl, Ariano Irpino, AV, 83031, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy,Correspondence: Miriam Zacchia, Via Pansini 5, Naples, 80131, Italy, Tel +39 081 566 6650, Fax +39 081 566 6671, Email
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Solarat C, Valverde D. Clinical and molecular diagnosis of Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS). Methods Cell Biol 2023; 176:125-137. [PMID: 37164534 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2022.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare genetic disease of the group of ciliopathies, a group of pathologies characterized mainly by defects in the structure and/or function of primary cilia. The main features of this ciliopathy are retinal dystrophy, obesity, polydactyly, urogenital and renal abnormalities, and cognitive impairment, commonly accompanied by various secondary features, making clear the extensive clinical heterogeneity associated with this syndrome, which, together with the frequent overlapping phenotype with other ciliopathies, greatly complicates its diagnosis. Patients are mainly detected by their pediatrician at quite early ages, usually between 2 and 6years. The pediatrician, given the main symptoms they present, usually refers patients to a specialist. Personalized medicine brought diagnosis closer to many patients who lacked it. It usually presents an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance, but in recent years several authors have proposed more complex inheritance models to explain the frequent inter- and intra-familial clinical variability. The main molecular techniques used for diagnosis are gene panels, the clinical exome and, in certain cases, the patient's complete genome. Although numerous studies have contributed to defining the role of the different BBS genes and designing various strategies for the molecular diagnosis of BBS, as well as delving into the functions performed by these proteins, these advances have not been sufficient to develop a complete treatment for this syndrome. and to be able to offer patients some therapeutic options.
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The assembly and maintenance of most cilia and eukaryotic flagella depends on intraflagellar transport (IFT), the bidirectional movement of multi-megadalton IFT trains along the axonemal microtubules. These IFT trains function as carriers, moving ciliary proteins between the cell body and the organelle. Whereas tubulin, the principal protein of cilia, binds directly to IFT particle proteins, the transport of other ciliary proteins and complexes requires adapters that link them to the trains. Large axonemal substructures, such as radial spokes, outer dynein arms and inner dynein arms, assemble in the cell body before attaching to IFT trains, using the adapters ARMC2, ODA16 and IDA3, respectively. Ciliary import of several membrane proteins involves the putative adapter tubby-like protein 3 (TULP3), whereas membrane protein export involves the BBSome, an octameric complex that co-migrates with IFT particles. Thus, cells employ a variety of adapters, each of which is substoichiometric to the core IFT machinery, to expand the cargo range of the IFT trains. This Review summarizes the individual and shared features of the known cargo adapters and discusses their possible role in regulating the transport capacity of the IFT pathway.
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- Karl Lechtreck
- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Guardiola GA, Ramos F, Izquierdo NJ, Oliver AL. A Genotype-Phenotype Analysis of the Bardet-Biedl Syndrome in Puerto Rico. Clin Ophthalmol 2021; 15:3757-3764. [PMID: 34526762 PMCID: PMC8435472 DOI: 10.2147/opth.s328493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background Bardet-Biedl syndrome is a complex heterogeneous ciliopathy caused by genetic mutations. Although establishing genotype-phenotype correlations has been challenging, some regional variations have been previously reported. Due to its relative geographic isolation, Puerto Rico has a greater prevalence of Bardet-Biedl syndrome than do other regions. We sought to characterize the most frequent genotypic variations in a local cohort of Bardet-Biedl syndrome patients and report any genotypic-phenotypic trends. Methods Twenty-seven patients from an ophthalmology clinic in Puerto Rico with genetically confirmed Bardet-Biedl syndrome took a questionnaire inquiring about their most common symptoms. Ophthalmological information was obtained from patient records. The frequencies of the genotypic variations and symptoms were calculated. Results In the study population, BBS1 was the most prevalent mutated gene, followed by BBS7. In the BBS1 group, we found homozygotes for c.1169T>G (p.Met390Arg) and c.1645G>T (p.Glu549*), and compound heterozygotes for c.1169T>G (p.Met390Arg) and c.1645G>T (p.Glu549*), with one patient having c.1645G>T (p.Glu549*) and c.432+1G>A (splice donor). All the BBS7 patients were homozygous for c.632C>T (p.Thr211Ile). Compared to BBS7, we found that BBS1 patients generally had a milder ocular and systemic phenotype. However, when analyzing different BBS1 variants, patients with mutations in c.1645G>T (p.Glu549*), both compound heterozygous and homozygous, had more severe systemic phenotypes, overall. Conclusion Our study was the first detailed genotype-phenotype analysis of the Bardet-Biedl syndrome in Puerto Rico. Genetic mutations in BBS1 and BBS7 seem to be the most common culprits behind Bardet-Biedl syndrome in this population. Although patients diagnosed with BBS1 are likely to display milder systemic features, this was not the case with our BBS1 patients having the c.1645G>T (p.Glu549*) mutation. Further studies should focus on the c.1645G>T (p.Glu549*) mutation's impact on the BBS1 gene and protein product.
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- Gabriel A Guardiola
- Department of Medicine, Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, Bayamon, PR, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, USA
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Day SE, Muller YL, Koroglu C, Kobes S, Wiedrich K, Mahkee D, Kim HI, Van Hout C, Gosalia N, Ye B, Shuldiner AR, Knowler WC, Hanson RL, Bogardus C, Baier LJ. Exome Sequencing of 21 Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS) Genes to Identify Obesity Variants in 6,851 American Indians. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2021; 29:748-754. [PMID: 33616283 PMCID: PMC8048836 DOI: 10.1002/oby.23115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Revised: 11/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVE In an ongoing effort to identify the genetic variation that contributes to obesity in American Indians, known Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) genes were analyzed for an effect on BMI and leptin signaling. METHODS Potentially deleterious variants (Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion score > 20) in BBS genes were identified in whole-exome sequence data from 6,851 American Indians informative for BMI. Common variants (detected in ≥ 10 individuals) were analyzed for association with BMI; rare variants (detected in < 10 individuals) were analyzed for mean BMI of carriers. Functional assessment of variants' effect on signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) activity was performed in vitro. RESULTS One common variant, rs59252892 (Thr549Ile) in BBS9, was associated with BMI (P = 0.0008, β = 25% increase per risk allele). Among rare variants for which carriers had severe obesity (mean BMI > 40 kg/m2 ), four were in BBS9. In vitro analysis of BBS9 found the Ile allele at Thr549Ile had a 20% increase in STAT3 activity compared with the Thr allele (P = 0.01). Western blot analysis showed the Ile allele had a 15% increase in STAT3 phosphorylation (P = 0.006). Comparable functional results were observed with Ser545Gly and Val209Leu but not Leu665Phe and Lys810Glu. CONCLUSIONS Potentially functional variants in BBS genes in American Indians are reported. However, functional evidence supporting a causal role for BBS9 in obesity is inconclusive.
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- Samantha E. Day
- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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- Regeneron Genetics CenterTarrytownNew YorkUSA
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- Regeneron Genetics CenterTarrytownNew YorkUSA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthPhoenixArizonaUSA
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HTR6 and SSTR3 targeting to primary cilia. Biochem Soc Trans 2021; 49:79-91. [PMID: 33599752 DOI: 10.1042/bst20191005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Revised: 12/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Primary cilia are hair-like projections of the cell membrane supported by an inner microtubule scaffold, the axoneme, which polymerizes out of a membrane-docked centriole at the ciliary base. By working as specialized signaling compartments, primary cilia provide an optimal environment for many G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and their effectors to efficiently transmit their signals to the rest of the cell. For this to occur, however, all necessary receptors and signal transducers must first accumulate at the ciliary membrane. Serotonin receptor 6 (HTR6) and Somatostatin receptor 3 (SSTR3) are two GPCRs whose signaling in brain neuronal cilia affects cognition and is implicated in psychiatric, neurodegenerative, and oncologic diseases. Over a decade ago, the third intracellular loops (IC3s) of HTR6 and SSTR3 were shown to contain ciliary localization sequences (CLSs) that, when grafted onto non-ciliary GPCRs, could drive their ciliary accumulation. Nevertheless, these CLSs were dispensable for ciliary targeting of HTR6 and SSTR3, suggesting the presence of additional CLSs, which we have recently identified in their C-terminal tails. Herein, we review the discovery and mapping of these CLSs, as well as the state of the art regarding how these CLSs may orchestrate ciliary accumulation of these GPCRs by controlling when and where they interact with the ciliary entry and exit machinery via adaptors such as TULP3, RABL2 and the BBSome.
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Liu YX, Xue B, Sun WY, Wingfield JL, Sun J, Wu M, Lechtreck KF, Wu Z, Fan ZC. Bardet-Biedl syndrome 3 protein promotes ciliary exit of the signaling protein phospholipase D via the BBSome. eLife 2021; 10:59119. [PMID: 33587040 PMCID: PMC7963478 DOI: 10.7554/elife.59119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Certain ciliary signaling proteins couple with the BBSome, a conserved complex of Bardet–Biedl syndrome (BBS) proteins, to load onto retrograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) trains for their removal out of cilia in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Here, we show that loss of the Arf-like 6 (ARL6) GTPase BBS3 causes the signaling protein phospholipase D (PLD) to accumulate in cilia. Upon targeting to the basal body, BBSomes enter and cycle through cilia via IFT, while BBS3 in a GTP-bound state separates from BBSomes, associates with the membrane, and translocates from the basal body to cilia by diffusion. Upon arriving at the ciliary tip, GTP-bound BBS3 binds and recruits BBSomes to the ciliary membrane for interacting with PLD, thus making the PLD-laden BBSomes available to load onto retrograde IFT trains for ciliary exit. Therefore, BBS3 promotes PLD exit from cilia via the BBSome, providing a regulatory mechanism for ciliary signaling protein removal out of cilia.
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- Yan-Xia Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Institute of Health Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Institute of Health Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Institute of Health Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Institute of Health Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, United States
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- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Institute of Health Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China
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Barnes CL, Malhotra H, Calvert PD. Compartmentalization of Photoreceptor Sensory Cilia. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:636737. [PMID: 33614665 PMCID: PMC7889997 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.636737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Functional compartmentalization of cells is a universal strategy for segregating processes that require specific components, undergo regulation by modulating concentrations of those components, or that would be detrimental to other processes. Primary cilia are hair-like organelles that project from the apical plasma membranes of epithelial cells where they serve as exclusive compartments for sensing physical and chemical signals in the environment. As such, molecules involved in signal transduction are enriched within cilia and regulating their ciliary concentrations allows adaptation to the environmental stimuli. The highly efficient organization of primary cilia has been co-opted by major sensory neurons, olfactory cells and the photoreceptor neurons that underlie vision. The mechanisms underlying compartmentalization of cilia are an area of intense current research. Recent findings have revealed similarities and differences in molecular mechanisms of ciliary protein enrichment and its regulation among primary cilia and sensory cilia. Here we discuss the physiological demands on photoreceptors that have driven their evolution into neurons that rely on a highly specialized cilium for signaling changes in light intensity. We explore what is known and what is not known about how that specialization appears to have driven unique mechanisms for photoreceptor protein and membrane compartmentalization.
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Center for Vision Research, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States
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Tsyklauri O, Niederlova V, Forsythe E, Prasai A, Drobek A, Kasparek P, Sparks K, Trachtulec Z, Prochazka J, Sedlacek R, Beales P, Huranova M, Stepanek O. Bardet-Biedl Syndrome ciliopathy is linked to altered hematopoiesis and dysregulated self-tolerance. EMBO Rep 2021; 22:e50785. [PMID: 33426789 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202050785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS) is a pleiotropic genetic disease caused by the dysfunction of primary cilia. The immune system of patients with ciliopathies has not been investigated. However, there are multiple indications that the impairment of the processes typically associated with cilia may have influence on the hematopoietic compartment and immunity. In this study, we analyze clinical data of BBS patients and corresponding mouse models carrying mutations in Bbs4 or Bbs18. We find that BBS patients have a higher prevalence of certain autoimmune diseases. Both BBS patients and animal models have altered red blood cell and platelet compartments, as well as elevated white blood cell levels. Some of the hematopoietic system alterations are associated with BBS-induced obesity. Moreover, we observe that the development and homeostasis of B cells in mice is regulated by the transport complex BBSome, whose dysfunction is a common cause of BBS. The BBSome limits canonical WNT signaling and increases CXCL12 levels in bone marrow stromal cells. Taken together, our study reveals a connection between a ciliopathy and dysregulated immune and hematopoietic systems.
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- Oksana Tsyklauri
- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.,National Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Service, Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Transgenic Models of Diseases, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic.,Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- National Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Service, Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Germ Cell Development, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Transgenic Models of Diseases, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic.,Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Transgenic Models of Diseases, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic.,Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.,National Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Service, Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Barbeito P, Tachibana Y, Martin-Morales R, Moreno P, Mykytyn K, Kobayashi T, Garcia-Gonzalo FR. HTR6 and SSTR3 ciliary targeting relies on both IC3 loops and C-terminal tails. Life Sci Alliance 2020; 4:4/3/e202000746. [PMID: 33372037 PMCID: PMC7772773 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202000746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Ciliary accumulation of G protein–coupled receptors HTR6 and SSTR3 depends on redundant ciliary targeting sequences acting via ciliary trafficking adapters TULP3 and RABL2. G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the most common pharmacological target in human clinical practice. To perform their functions, many GPCRs must accumulate inside primary cilia, microtubule-based plasma membrane protrusions working as cellular antennae. Nevertheless, the molecular mechanisms underlying GPCR ciliary targeting remain poorly understood. Serotonin receptor 6 (HTR6) and somatostatin receptor 3 (SSTR3) are two brain-enriched ciliary GPCRs involved in cognition and pathologies such as Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. Although the third intracellular loops (IC3) of HTR6 and SSTR3 suffice to target non-ciliary GPCRs to cilia, these IC3s are dispensable for ciliary targeting of HTR6 and SSTR3 themselves, suggesting these GPCRs contain additional ciliary targeting sequences (CTSs). Herein, we discover and characterize novel CTSs in HTR6 and SSTR3 C-terminal tails (CT). These CT-CTSs (CTS2) act redundantly with IC3-CTSs (CTS1), each being sufficient for ciliary targeting. In HTR6, RKQ and LPG motifs are critical for CTS1 and CTS2 function, respectively, whereas in SSTR3 these roles are mostly fulfilled by AP[AS]CQ motifs in IC3 and juxtamembrane residues in CT. Furthermore, we shed light on how these CTSs promote ciliary targeting by modulating binding to ciliary trafficking adapters TULP3 and RABL2.
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- Pablo Barbeito
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-UAM, Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario de La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-UAM, Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario de La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-UAM, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.,Neuroscience Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain .,Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-UAM, Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario de La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain
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Shinde SR, Nager AR, Nachury MV. Ubiquitin chains earmark GPCRs for BBSome-mediated removal from cilia. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 2020; 219:211536. [PMID: 33185668 PMCID: PMC7716378 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202003020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2020] [Revised: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Regulated trafficking of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) controls cilium-based signaling pathways. β-Arrestin, a molecular sensor of activated GPCRs, and the BBSome, a complex of Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) proteins, are required for the signal-dependent exit of ciliary GPCRs, but the functional interplay between β-arrestin and the BBSome remains elusive. Here we find that, upon activation, ciliary GPCRs become tagged with ubiquitin chains comprising K63 linkages (UbK63) in a β-arrestin-dependent manner before BBSome-mediated exit. Removal of ubiquitin acceptor residues from the somatostatin receptor 3 (SSTR3) and from the orphan GPCR GPR161 demonstrates that ubiquitination of ciliary GPCRs is required for their regulated exit from cilia. Furthermore, targeting a UbK63-specific deubiquitinase to cilia blocks the exit of GPR161, SSTR3, and Smoothened (SMO) from cilia. Finally, ubiquitinated proteins accumulate in cilia of mammalian photoreceptors and Chlamydomonas cells when BBSome function is compromised. We conclude that Ub chains mark GPCRs and other unwanted ciliary proteins for recognition by the ciliary exit machinery.
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Okazaki M, Kobayashi T, Chiba S, Takei R, Liang L, Nakayama K, Katoh Y. Formation of the B9-domain protein complex MKS1-B9D2-B9D1 is essential as a diffusion barrier for ciliary membrane proteins. Mol Biol Cell 2020; 31:2259-2268. [PMID: 32726168 PMCID: PMC7550698 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e20-03-0208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Cilia are plasma membrane protrusions that act as cellular antennae and propellers in eukaryotes. To achieve their sensory and motile functions, cilia maintain protein and lipid compositions that are distinct from those of the cell body. The transition zone (TZ) is a specialized region located at the ciliary base, which functions as a barrier separating the interior and exterior of cilia. The TZ comprises a number of transmembrane and soluble proteins. Meckel syndrome (MKS)1, B9 domain (B9D)1/MKS9, and B9D2/MKS10 are soluble TZ proteins that are encoded by causative genes of MKS and have a B9D in common. We here demonstrate the interaction mode of these B9D proteins to be MKS1-B9D2-B9D1 and demonstrate their interdependent localization to the TZ. Phenotypic analyses of MKS1-knockout (KO) and B9D2-KO cells show that the B9D proteins are involved in, although not essential for, normal cilia biogenesis. Rescue experiments of these KO cells show that formation of the B9D protein complex is crucial for creating a diffusion barrier for ciliary membrane proteins.
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- Misato Okazaki
- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Genetic Disease Research, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Prasai A, Schmidt Cernohorska M, Ruppova K, Niederlova V, Andelova M, Draber P, Stepanek O, Huranova M. The BBSome assembly is spatially controlled by BBS1 and BBS4 in human cells. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:14279-14290. [PMID: 32759308 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.013905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a pleiotropic ciliopathy caused by dysfunction of primary cilia. More than half of BBS patients carry mutations in one of eight genes encoding for subunits of a protein complex, the BBSome, which mediates trafficking of ciliary cargoes. In this study, we elucidated the mechanisms of the BBSome assembly in living cells and how this process is spatially regulated. We generated a large library of human cell lines deficient in a particular BBSome subunit and expressing another subunit tagged with a fluorescent protein. We analyzed these cell lines utilizing biochemical assays, conventional and expansion microscopy, and quantitative fluorescence microscopy techniques: fluorescence recovery after photobleaching and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Our data revealed that the BBSome formation is a sequential process. We show that the pre-BBSome is nucleated by BBS4 and assembled at pericentriolar satellites, followed by the translocation of the BBSome into the ciliary base mediated by BBS1. Our results provide a framework for elucidating how BBS-causative mutations interfere with the biogenesis of the BBSome.
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- Avishek Prasai
- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Bales KL, Bentley MR, Croyle MJ, Kesterson RA, Yoder BK, Gross AK. BBSome Component BBS5 Is Required for Cone Photoreceptor Protein Trafficking and Outer Segment Maintenance. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2020; 61:17. [PMID: 32776140 PMCID: PMC7441369 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.61.10.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Purpose To identify the role of the BBSome protein Bardet-Biedl syndrome 5 (BBS5) in photoreceptor function, protein trafficking, and structure using a congenital mutant mouse model. Methods Bbs5-/- mice (2 and 9 months old) were used to assess retinal function and morphology. Hematoxylin and eosin staining of retinal sections was performed to visualize histology. Electroretinography was used to analyze rod and cone photoreceptor function. Retinal protein localization was visualized using immunofluorescence (IF) within retinal cryosections. TUNEL staining was used to quantify cell death. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was used to examine retinal ultrastructure. Results In the Bbs5-/- retina, there was a significant loss of nuclei in the outer nuclear layer accompanied by an increase in cell death. Through electroretinography, Bbs5-/- mice showed complete loss of cone photoreceptor function. IF revealed mislocalization of the cone-specific proteins M- and S-opsins, arrestin-4, CNGA3, and GNAT2, as well as a light-dependent arrestin-1 mislocalization, although perpherin-2 was properly localized. TEM revealed abnormal outer segment disk orientation in Bbs5-/-. Conclusions Collectively, these data suggest that, although BBS5 is a core BBSome component expressed in all ciliated cells, its role within the retina mediates specific photoreceptor protein cargo transport. In the absence of BBS5, cone-specific protein mislocalization and a loss of cone photoreceptor function occur.
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- Katie L. Bales
- Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Exploring Key Challenges of Understanding the Pathogenesis of Kidney Disease in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome. Kidney Int Rep 2020; 5:1403-1415. [PMID: 32954066 PMCID: PMC7486190 DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Revised: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Bardet–Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare pleiotropic inherited disorder known as a ciliopathy. Kidney disease is a cardinal clinical feature; however, it is one of the less investigated traits. This study is a comprehensive analysis of the literature aiming to collect available information providing mechanistic insights into the pathogenesis of kidney disease by analyzing clinical and basic science studies focused on this issue. The analysis revealed that the syndrome is either clinically and genetically heterogenous, with 24 genes discovered to date, but with 3 genes (BBS1, BBS2, and BBS10) accounting for almost 50% of diagnoses; genotype–phenotype correlation studies showed that patients with BBS1 mutations have a less severe renal phenotype than the other 2 most common loci; in addition, truncating rather than missense mutations are more likely to cause kidney disease. However, significant intrafamilial clinical variability has been described, with no clear explanation to date. In mice kidneys, Bbs genes have relative low expression levels, in contrast with other common affected organs, like the retina; surprisingly, Bbs1 is the only locus with basal overexpression in the kidney. In vitro studies indicate that signalling pathways involved in embryonic kidney development and repair are affected in the context of BBS depletion; in mice, kidney disease does not have a full penetrance; when present, it resembles human phenotype and shows an age-dependent progression. Data on the exact contribution of local versus systemic consequences of Bbs dysfunction are scanty and further investigations are required to get firm conclusions.
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Yang S, Bahl K, Chou HT, Woodsmith J, Stelzl U, Walz T, Nachury MV. Near-atomic structures of the BBSome reveal the basis for BBSome activation and binding to GPCR cargoes. eLife 2020; 9:55954. [PMID: 32510327 PMCID: PMC7311171 DOI: 10.7554/elife.55954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Dynamic trafficking of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) out of cilia is mediated by the BBSome. In concert with its membrane recruitment factor, the small GTPase ARL6/BBS3, the BBSome ferries GPCRs across the transition zone, a diffusion barrier at the base of cilia. Here, we present the near-atomic structures of the BBSome by itself and in complex with ARL6GTP, and we describe the changes in BBSome conformation induced by ARL6GTP binding. Modeling the interactions of the BBSome with membranes and the GPCR Smoothened (SMO) reveals that SMO, and likely also other GPCR cargoes, must release their amphipathic helix 8 from the membrane to be recognized by the BBSome.
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- Shuang Yang
- Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Graz and BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Graz and BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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Nakayama K, Katoh Y. Architecture of the IFT ciliary trafficking machinery and interplay between its components. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2020; 55:179-196. [PMID: 32456460 DOI: 10.1080/10409238.2020.1768206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Cilia and flagella serve as cellular antennae and propellers in various eukaryotic cells, and contain specific receptors and ion channels as well as components of axonemal microtubules and molecular motors to achieve their sensory and motile functions. Not only the bidirectional trafficking of specific proteins within cilia but also their selective entry and exit across the ciliary gate is mediated by the intraflagellar transport (IFT) machinery with the aid of motor proteins. The IFT-B complex, which is powered by the kinesin-2 motor, mediates anterograde protein trafficking from the base to the tip of cilia, whereas the IFT-A complex together with the dynein-2 complex mediates retrograde protein trafficking. The BBSome complex connects ciliary membrane proteins to the IFT machinery. Defects in any component of this trafficking machinery lead to abnormal ciliogenesis and ciliary functions, and results in a broad spectrum of disorders, collectively called the ciliopathies. In this review article, we provide an overview of the architectures of the components of the IFT machinery and their functional interplay in ciliary protein trafficking.
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- Kazuhisa Nakayama
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Tao T, Wang L, Chong W, Yang L, Li G. Characteristics of genotype and phenotype in Chinese patients with Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Int Ophthalmol 2020; 40:2325-2343. [PMID: 32448990 DOI: 10.1007/s10792-020-01415-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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PURPOSE To investigate complex and different phenotypes in seven Chinese patients diagnosed with Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) and carrying pathogenic mutations. METHODS Seven unrelated BBS patients were enrolled. Their medical and ophthalmic histories were reviewed, and comprehensive clinical examinations, such as fundus photography, optical coherence tomography, and medical imaging, were performed. A specific hereditary eye disease enrichment panel based on exome-capture technology was used to collect and amplify the protein-coding regions of 441 targeted hereditary eye disease genes, followed by high-throughput sequencing using the Illumina HiSeq platform. RESULTS All patients exhibited the primary clinical phenotype of BBS. Seven BBS mutations were found in five patients (BBS7 in two patients, BBS10 in two patients, BBS12 in one patient), for a detection rate of 71% (5/7). The ratio of novel to known BBS mutations was 5:2. CONCLUSIONS This study showed the phenotypic and genotypic spectrum of BBS patients from China, and the findings underscore the importance of obtaining comprehensive clinical observations and molecular analyses for ciliopathies.
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- Tianchang Tao
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University; Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Key Lab, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University; Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Key Lab, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University; Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Key Lab, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Peking University Third Hospital, Key Laboratory of Restoration of Damaged Ocular Nerve Beijing, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University; Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Key Lab, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
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Sadler E, Ryals MM, May LA, Martin D, Welsh N, Boger ET, Morell RJ, Hertzano R, Cunningham LL. Cell-Specific Transcriptional Responses to Heat Shock in the Mouse Utricle Epithelium. Front Cell Neurosci 2020; 14:123. [PMID: 32528249 PMCID: PMC7247426 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2020.00123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Sensory epithelia of the inner ear contain mechanosensory hair cells (HCs) and glia-like supporting cells (SCs), both of which are required for hearing and balance functions. Each of these cell types has unique responses to ototoxic and cytoprotective stimuli. Non-lethal heat stress in the mammalian utricle induces heat shock proteins (HSPs) and protects against ototoxic drug-induced hair cell death. Induction of HSPs in the utricle demonstrates cell-type specificity at the protein level, with HSP70 induction occurring primarily in SCs, while HSP32 (also known as heme oxygenase 1, HMOX1) is induced primarily in resident macrophages. Neither of these HSPs are robustly induced in HCs, suggesting that HCs may have little capacity for induction of stress-induced protective responses. To determine the transcriptional responses to heat shock of these different cell types, we performed cell-type-specific transcriptional profiling using the RiboTag method, which allows for immunoprecipitation (IP) of actively translating mRNAs from specific cell types. RNA-Seq differential gene expression analyses demonstrated that the RiboTag method identified known cell type-specific markers as well as new markers for HCs and SCs. Gene expression differences suggest that HCs and SCs exhibit differential transcriptional heat shock responses. The chaperonin family member Cct8 was significantly enriched only in heat-shocked HCs, while Hspa1l (HSP70 family), and Hspb1 and Cryab (HSP27 and HSP20 families, respectively) were enriched only in SCs. Together our data indicate that HCs exhibit a limited but unique heat shock response, and SCs exhibit a broader and more robust transcriptional response to protective heat stress.
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- Erica Sadler
- Section on Sensory Cell Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Section on Sensory Cell Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.,Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Section on Sensory Cell Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Core, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.,Genomics and Computational Biology Core, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Section on Sensory Cell Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Core, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Core, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.,Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.,Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Section on Sensory Cell Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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Establishing and regulating the composition of cilia for signal transduction. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2020; 20:389-405. [PMID: 30948801 DOI: 10.1038/s41580-019-0116-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 226] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The primary cilium is a hair-like surface-exposed organelle of the eukaryotic cell that decodes a variety of signals - such as odorants, light and Hedgehog morphogens - by altering the local concentrations and activities of signalling proteins. Signalling within the cilium is conveyed through a diverse array of second messengers, including conventional signalling molecules (such as cAMP) and some unusual intermediates (such as sterols). Diffusion barriers at the ciliary base establish the unique composition of this signalling compartment, and cilia adapt their proteome to signalling demands through regulated protein trafficking. Much progress has been made on the molecular understanding of regulated ciliary trafficking, which encompasses not only exchanges between the cilium and the rest of the cell but also the shedding of signalling factors into extracellular vesicles.
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Gigante ED, Caspary T. Signaling in the primary cilium through the lens of the Hedgehog pathway. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 2020; 9:e377. [PMID: 32084300 DOI: 10.1002/wdev.377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Cilia are microtubule-based, cell-surface projections whose machinery is evolutionarily conserved. In vertebrates, cilia are observed on almost every cell type and are either motile or immotile. Immotile sensory, or primary cilia, are responsive to extracellular ligands and signals. Cilia can be thought of as compartments, functionally distinct from the cell that provides an environment for signaling cascades. Hedgehog is a critical developmental signaling pathway which is functionally linked to primary cilia in vertebrates. The major components of the vertebrate Hedgehog signaling pathway dynamically localize to the ciliary compartment and ciliary membrane. Critically, G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) Smoothened, the obligate transducer of the pathway, is enriched and activated in the cilium. While Smoothened is the most intensely studied ciliary receptor, many GPCRs localize within cilia. Understanding the link between Smoothened and cilia defines common features, and distinctions, of GPCR signaling within the primary cilium. This article is categorized under: Signaling Pathways > Global Signaling Mechanisms Signaling Pathways > Cell Fate Signaling.
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- Eduardo D Gigante
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Intraflagellar transport protein RABL5/IFT22 recruits the BBSome to the basal body through the GTPase ARL6/BBS3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:2496-2505. [PMID: 31953262 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1901665117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a ciliopathy caused by defects in the assembly or distribution of the BBSome, a conserved protein complex. The BBSome cycles via intraflagellar transport (IFT) through cilia to transport signaling proteins. How the BBSome is recruited to the basal body for binding to IFT trains for ciliary entry remains unknown. Here, we show that the Rab-like 5 GTPase IFT22 regulates basal body targeting of the BBSome in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Our functional, biochemical and single particle in vivo imaging assays show that IFT22 is an active GTPase with low intrinsic GTPase activity. IFT22 is part of the IFT-B1 subcomplex but is not required for ciliary assembly. Independent of its association to IFT-B1, IFT22 binds and stabilizes the Arf-like 6 GTPase BBS3, a BBS protein that is not part of the BBSome. IFT22/BBS3 associates with the BBSome through an interaction between BBS3 and the BBSome. When both IFT22 and BBS3 are in their guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-bound states they recruit the BBSome to the basal body for coupling with the IFT-B1 subcomplex. The GTP-bound BBS3 likely remains to be associated with the BBSome upon ciliary entry. In contrast, IFT22 is not required for the transport of BBSomes in cilia, indicating that the BBSome is transferred from IFT22 to the IFT trains at the ciliary base. In summary, our data propose that nucleotide-dependent recruitment of the BBSome to the basal body by IFT22 regulates BBSome entry into cilia.
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Klink BU, Gatsogiannis C, Hofnagel O, Wittinghofer A, Raunser S. Structure of the human BBSome core complex. eLife 2020; 9:53910. [PMID: 31951201 PMCID: PMC7018512 DOI: 10.7554/elife.53910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The BBSome is a heterooctameric protein complex that plays a central role in primary cilia homeostasis. Its malfunction causes the severe ciliopathy Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS). The complex acts as a cargo adapter that recognizes signaling proteins such as GPCRs and links them to the intraflagellar transport machinery. The underlying mechanism is poorly understood. Here we present a high-resolution cryo-EM structure of a human heterohexameric core subcomplex of the BBSome. The structure reveals the architecture of the complex in atomic detail. It explains how the subunits interact with each other and how disease-causing mutations hamper this interaction. The complex adopts a conformation that is open for binding to membrane-associated GTPase Arl6 and a large positively charged patch likely strengthens the interaction with the membrane. A prominent negatively charged cleft at the center of the complex is likely involved in binding of positively charged signaling sequences of cargo proteins.
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- Björn Udo Klink
- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Structural Biology Group, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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Singh SK, Gui M, Koh F, Yip MC, Brown A. Structure and activation mechanism of the BBSome membrane protein trafficking complex. eLife 2020; 9:53322. [PMID: 31939736 PMCID: PMC7018513 DOI: 10.7554/elife.53322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a currently incurable ciliopathy caused by the failure to correctly establish or maintain cilia-dependent signaling pathways. Eight proteins associated with BBS assemble into the BBSome, a key regulator of the ciliary membrane proteome. We report the electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) structures of the native bovine BBSome in inactive and active states at 3.1 and 3.5 Å resolution, respectively. In the active state, the BBSome is bound to an Arf-family GTPase (ARL6/BBS3) that recruits the BBSome to ciliary membranes. ARL6 recognizes a composite binding site formed by BBS1 and BBS7 that is occluded in the inactive state. Activation requires an unexpected swiveling of the β-propeller domain of BBS1, the subunit most frequently implicated in substrate recognition, which widens a central cavity of the BBSome. Structural mapping of disease-causing mutations suggests that pathogenesis results from folding defects and the disruption of autoinhibition and activation.
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- Sandeep K Singh
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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Patnaik SR, Farag A, Brücker L, Volz AK, Schneider S, Kretschmer V, May-Simera HL. Tissue-dependent differences in Bardet-Biedl syndrome gene expression. Biol Cell 2020; 112:39-52. [PMID: 31845361 DOI: 10.1111/boc.201900077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 11/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION Primary cilia are highly conserved multifunctional cell organelles that extend from the cell membrane. A range of genetic disorders, collectively termed ciliopathies, is attributed to primary cilia dysfunction. The archetypical ciliopathy is the Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), patients of which display virtually all symptoms associated with dysfunctional cilia. The primary cilium acts as a sensory organelle transmitting intra- and extracellular signals thereby transducing various signalling pathways facilitated by the BBS proteins. Growing evidence suggests that cilia proteins also have alternative functions in ciliary independent mechanisms, which might be contributing to disease etiology. RESULTS In an attempt to gain more insight into possible differences in organ specific roles, we examined whether relative gene expression for individual Bbs genes was constant across different tissues in mouse, in order to distinguish possible differences in organ specific roles. All tested tissues show differentially expressed Bbs transcripts with some tissues showing a more similar stoichiometric composition of transcripts than others do. However, loss of Bbs6 or Bbs8 affects expression of other Bbs transcripts in a tissue-dependent way. CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE Our data support the hypothesis that in some organs, BBS proteins not only function in a complex but might also have alternative functions in a ciliary independent context. This significantly alters our understanding of disease pathogenesis and development of possible treatment strategies.
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- Sarita Rani Patnaik
- Cilia Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, 55128, Germany
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- Cilia Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, 55128, Germany
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- Cilia Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, 55128, Germany
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- Cilia Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, 55128, Germany
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- Cilia Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, 55128, Germany
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- Cilia Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, 55128, Germany
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- Cilia Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, 55128, Germany
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Gpr63 is a modifier of microcephaly in Ttc21b mouse mutants. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008467. [PMID: 31730647 PMCID: PMC6881074 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2018] [Revised: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The primary cilium is a signaling center critical for proper embryonic development. Previous studies have demonstrated that mice lacking Ttc21b have impaired retrograde trafficking within the cilium and multiple organogenesis phenotypes, including microcephaly. Interestingly, the severity of the microcephaly in Ttc21baln/aln homozygous null mutants is considerably affected by the genetic background and mutants on an FVB/NJ (FVB) background develop a forebrain significantly smaller than mutants on a C57BL/6J (B6) background. We performed a Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) analysis to identify potential genetic modifiers and identified two regions linked to differential forebrain size: modifier of alien QTL1 (Moaq1) on chromosome 4 at 27.8 Mb and Moaq2 on chromosome 6 at 93.6 Mb. These QTLs were validated by constructing congenic strains. Further analysis of Moaq1 identified an orphan G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR), Gpr63, as a candidate gene. We identified a SNP that is polymorphic between the FVB and B6 strains in Gpr63 and creates a missense mutation predicted to be deleterious in the FVB protein. We used CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to create two lines of FVB congenic mice: one with the B6 sequence of Gpr63 and the other with a deletion allele leading to a truncation of the GPR63 C-terminal tail. We then demonstrated that Gpr63 can localize to the cilium in vitro. These alleles affect ciliary localization of GPR63 in vitro and genetically interact with Ttc21baln/aln as Gpr63;Ttc21b double mutants show unique phenotypes including spina bifida aperta and earlier embryonic lethality. This validated Gpr63 as a modifier of multiple Ttc21b neural phenotypes and strongly supports Gpr63 as a causal gene (i.e., a quantitative trait gene, QTG) within the Moaq1 QTL. TTC21B in humans is a known ciliopathy gene and contributes to the pathophysiology of a number of ciliopathies. Mice homozygous for a null allele of Ttc21b also have a spectrum of ciliopathy phenotypes, including microcephaly (small brain). Further work has shown that the severity of the microcephaly significantly depends on the genetic background of the mouse model. The genetic mechanisms of the Ttc21b pathophysiology and the interacting gene network remain far from understood. As an initial attempt to understand the underlying mechanism(s) underlying the variable effects on brain size, we performed a quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis and found two regions of genomic significance that correlated with smaller brain size. We confirmed both QTLs with congenic lines. One of the two regions was small enough that we considered candidate genes and hypothesized Gpr63 might be a contributing locus for a number of reasons. We evaluated this hypothesis directly with precise variant creation using genome editing and provide evidence that Ttc21b and Gpr63 do indeed genetically interact. Thus, we have been able to combine classical QTL analysis and genome editing to directly test the resulting hypothesis.
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ERICH3 in Primary Cilia Regulates Cilium Formation and the Localisations of Ciliary Transport and Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Proteins. Sci Rep 2019; 9:16519. [PMID: 31712586 PMCID: PMC6848114 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52830-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2019] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is essential for the formation and function of the microtubule-based primary cilium, which acts as a sensory and signalling device at the cell surface. Consisting of IFT-A/B and BBSome cargo adaptors that associate with molecular motors, IFT transports protein into (anterograde IFT) and out of (retrograde IFT) the cilium. In this study, we identify the mostly uncharacterised ERICH3 protein as a component of the mammalian primary cilium. Loss of ERICH3 causes abnormally short cilia and results in the accumulation of IFT-A/B proteins at the ciliary tip, together with reduced ciliary levels of retrograde transport regulators, ARL13B, INPP5E and BBS5. We also show that ERICH3 ciliary localisations require ARL13B and BBSome components. Finally, ERICH3 loss causes positive (Smoothened) and negative (GPR161) regulators of sonic hedgehog signaling (Shh) to accumulate at abnormally high levels in the cilia of pathway-stimulated cells. Together, these findings identify ERICH3 as a novel component of the primary cilium that regulates cilium length and the ciliary levels of Shh signaling molecules. We propose that ERICH3 functions within retrograde IFT-associated pathways to remove signaling proteins from cilia.
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Lodh S. Primary Cilium, An Unsung Hero in Maintaining Functional β-cell Population. THE YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2019; 92:471-480. [PMID: 31543709 PMCID: PMC6747938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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A primary challenge in type 2 diabetes (T2D) is the preservation of a functional population of β-cells, which play a central role in regulating blood glucose levels. Two congenital disorders, Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) and Alström syndrome (ALMS), can serve as useful models to understand how β-cells are normally produced and regenerated. Both are characterized by obesity, loss of β-cells, and defects in primary cilia - the sensory center of cells. Primary cilia are cellular protrusions present in almost every vertebrate cell. This antenna-like organelle plays a crucial role in regulating several signaling pathways that direct proper development, proliferation, and homeostasis. Mutations in genes expressing ciliary proteins or proteins present at or near the base of the cilium lead to disorders, collectively called ciliopathies. BBS and Alström syndrome are such disorders. Though both BBS and Alström patients are obese, their childhood diabetes rates are vastly different, suggesting distinct pathogenesis underlying these two ciliopathies. Clinical studies suggest that BBS patients are protected against early onset diabetes by sustained or enhanced β-cell function. In contrast, Alström patients are more prone to develop diabetes. They have hyperinsulinemia, yet their β-cells fail to sense glucose and to regulate insulin secretion accordingly. These data suggest a potential role for primary cilia in maintaining a functional β-cell population and that defects in cilia or in ciliary proteins impair development and function of β-cells. Identifying the respective roles of primary cilia and ciliary proteins, such as BBS and ALMS1 may shed light on β-cell biology and uncover potentially novel targets for diabetes therapy.
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- Sukanya Lodh
- To whom all correspondence should be addressed: Sukanya Lodh, Department of Biological sciences, Marquette University, 1428 W. Clybourn St., Milwaukee, WI 53233; Tel: 802-881-6221, Email address:
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Ludlam WG, Aoba T, Cuéllar J, Bueno-Carrasco MT, Makaju A, Moody JD, Franklin S, Valpuesta JM, Willardson BM. Molecular architecture of the Bardet-Biedl syndrome protein 2-7-9 subcomplex. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:16385-16399. [PMID: 31530639 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.010150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2019] [Revised: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a genetic disorder characterized by malfunctions in primary cilia resulting from mutations that disrupt the function of the BBSome, an 8-subunit complex that plays an important role in protein transport in primary cilia. To better understand the molecular basis of BBS, here we used an integrative structural modeling approach consisting of EM and chemical cross-linking coupled with MS analyses, to analyze the structure of a BBSome 2-7-9 subcomplex consisting of three homologous BBS proteins, BBS2, BBS7, and BBS9. The resulting molecular model revealed an overall structure that resembles a flattened triangle. We found that within this structure, BBS2 and BBS7 form a tight dimer through a coiled-coil interaction and that BBS9 associates with the dimer via an interaction with the α-helical domain of BBS2. Interestingly, a BBS-associated mutation of BBS2 (R632P) is located in its α-helical domain at the interface between BBS2 and BBS9, and binding experiments indicated that this mutation disrupts the BBS2-BBS9 interaction. This finding suggests that BBSome assembly is disrupted by the R632P substitution, providing molecular insights that may explain the etiology of BBS in individuals harboring this mutation.
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- W Grant Ludlam
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
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- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
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Nozaki S, Castro Araya RF, Katoh Y, Nakayama K. Requirement of IFT-B-BBSome complex interaction in export of GPR161 from cilia. Biol Open 2019; 8:bio043786. [PMID: 31471295 PMCID: PMC6777367 DOI: 10.1242/bio.043786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The intraflagellar transport (IFT) machinery, which includes the IFT-A and IFT-B complexes, mediates bidirectional trafficking of ciliary proteins. In addition to these complexes, the BBSome, which is composed of eight subunits that are encoded by the causative genes of Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), has been proposed to connect the IFT machinery to ciliary membrane proteins, such as G protein-coupled receptors, to mediate their export from cilia. However, little is known about the connection between the IFT machinery and the BBSome. Using the visible immunoprecipitation assay, we here identified the interaction between IFT38 from the IFT-B complex and BBS1, BBS2 and BBS9 from the BBSome. Furthermore, by analyzing phenotypes of IFT38-knockout cells exogenously expressing wild-type IFT38 or its mutant lacking the ability to interact with BBS1+BBS2+BBS9, we showed that knockout cells expressing the IFT38 mutant have restored ciliogenesis; however, similar to BBS1-knockout cells, they demonstrated significant accumulation of GPR161 within cilia upon stimulation of Hedgehog signaling. These results indicate that the IFT-B-BBSome interaction is required for the export of GPR161 across the ciliary gate.
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- Shohei Nozaki
- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Niederlova V, Modrak M, Tsyklauri O, Huranova M, Stepanek O. Meta-analysis of genotype-phenotype associations in Bardet-Biedl syndrome uncovers differences among causative genes. Hum Mutat 2019; 40:2068-2087. [PMID: 31283077 DOI: 10.1002/humu.23862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Revised: 06/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a recessive genetic disease causing multiple organ anomalies. Most patients carry mutations in genes encoding for the subunits of the BBSome, an octameric ciliary transport complex, or accessory proteins involved in the BBSome assembly or function. BBS proteins have been extensively studied using in vitro, cellular, and animal models. However, the molecular functions of particular BBS proteins and the etiology of the BBS symptoms are still largely elusive. In this study, we applied a meta-analysis approach to study the genotype-phenotype association in humans using our database of all reported BBS patients. The analysis revealed that the identity of the causative gene and the character of the mutation partially predict the clinical outcome of the disease. Besides their potential use for clinical prognosis, our analysis revealed functional differences of particular BBS genes in humans. Core BBSome subunits BBS2, BBS7, and BBS9 manifest as more critical for the function and development of kidneys than peripheral subunits BBS1, BBS4, and BBS8/TTC8, suggesting that incomplete BBSome retains residual function at least in the kidney.
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- Veronika Niederlova
- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Balancing the Photoreceptor Proteome: Proteostasis Network Therapeutics for Inherited Retinal Disease. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:genes10080557. [PMID: 31344897 PMCID: PMC6722924 DOI: 10.3390/genes10080557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2019] [Revised: 07/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The light sensing outer segments of photoreceptors (PRs) are renewed every ten days due to their high photoactivity, especially of the cones during daytime vision. This demands a tremendous amount of energy, as well as a high turnover of their main biosynthetic compounds, membranes, and proteins. Therefore, a refined proteostasis network (PN), regulating the protein balance, is crucial for PR viability. In many inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) this balance is disrupted leading to protein accumulation in the inner segment and eventually the death of PRs. Various studies have been focusing on therapeutically targeting the different branches of the PR PN to restore the protein balance and ultimately to treat inherited blindness. This review first describes the different branches of the PN in detail. Subsequently, insights are provided on how therapeutic compounds directed against the different PN branches might slow down or even arrest the appalling, progressive blinding conditions. These insights are supported by findings of PN modulators in other research disciplines.
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The Molecular Architecture of Native BBSome Obtained by an Integrated Structural Approach. Structure 2019; 27:1384-1394.e4. [PMID: 31303482 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2019.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Revised: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The unique membrane composition of cilia is maintained by a diffusion barrier at the transition zone that is breached when the BBSome escorts signaling receptors out of cilia. Understanding how the BBSome removes proteins from cilia has been hampered by a lack of structural information. Here, we present a nearly complete Cα model of BBSome purified from cow retina. The model is based on a single-particle cryo-electron microscopy density map at 4.9-Å resolution that was interpreted with the help of comprehensive Rosetta-based structural modeling constrained by crosslinking mass spectrometry data. We find that BBSome subunits have a very high degree of interconnectivity, explaining the obligate nature of the complex. Furthermore, like other coat adaptors, the BBSome exists in an autoinhibited state in solution and must thus undergo a conformational change upon recruitment to membranes by the small GTPase ARL6/BBS3. Our model provides the first detailed view of the machinery enabling ciliary exit.
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Gawden-Bone CM, Griffiths GM. Phospholipids: Pulling Back the Actin Curtain for Granule Delivery to the Immune Synapse. Front Immunol 2019; 10:700. [PMID: 31031745 PMCID: PMC6470250 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Phosphoinositides, together with the phospholipids phosphatidylserine and phosphatidic acid, are important components of the plasma membrane acting as second messengers that, with diacylglycerol, regulate a diverse range of signaling events converting extracellular changes into cellular responses. Local changes in their distribution and membrane charge on the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane play important roles in immune cell function. Here we discuss their distribution and regulators highlighting the importance of membrane changes across the immune synapse on the cytoskeleton and the impact on the function of cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
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- Cambridge Institute of Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Tsurumi Y, Hamada Y, Katoh Y, Nakayama K. Interactions of the dynein-2 intermediate chain WDR34 with the light chains are required for ciliary retrograde protein trafficking. Mol Biol Cell 2019; 30:658-670. [PMID: 30649997 PMCID: PMC6589695 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e18-10-0678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Revised: 01/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The dynein-2 complex drives retrograde ciliary protein trafficking by associating with the intraflagellar transport (IFT) machinery, containing IFT-A and IFT-B complexes. We recently showed that the dynein-2 complex, which comprises 11 subunits, can be divided into three subcomplexes: DYNC2H1-DYNC2LI1, WDR34-DYNLL1/DYNLL2-DYNLRB1/DYNLRB2, and WDR60-TCTEX1D2-DYNLT1/DYNLT3. In this study, we demonstrated that the WDR34 intermediate chain interacts with the two light chains, DYNLL1/DYNLL2 and DYNLRB1/DYNLRB2, via its distinct sites. Phenotypic analyses of WDR34-knockout cells exogenously expressing various WDR34 constructs showed that the interactions of the WDR34 intermediate chain with the light chains are crucial for ciliary retrograde protein trafficking. Furthermore, we found that expression of the WDR34 N-terminal construct encompassing the light chain-binding sites but lacking the WD40 repeat domain inhibits ciliary biogenesis and retrograde trafficking in a dominant-negative manner, probably by sequestering WDR60 or the light chains. Taken together with phenotypic differences of several WDR34-knockout cell lines, these results indicate that incorporation of DYNLL1/DYNLL2 and DYNLRB1/DYNLRB2 into the dynein-2 complex via interactions with the WDR34 intermediate chain is crucial for dynein-2 function in retrograde ciliary protein trafficking.
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- Yuta Tsurumi
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Trafficking of ciliary membrane proteins by the intraflagellar transport/BBSome machinery. Essays Biochem 2018; 62:753-763. [PMID: 30287585 DOI: 10.1042/ebc20180030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Revised: 09/04/2018] [Accepted: 09/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare inherited disease caused by defects in the BBSome, an octameric complex of BBS proteins. The BBSome is conserved in most organisms with cilia, which are microtubule (MT)-based cell organelles that protrude from the cell surface and function in motility and sensing. Cilia assembly, maintenance, and function require intraflagellar transport (IFT), a bidirectional motility of multi-megadalton IFT trains propelled by molecular motors along the ciliary MTs. IFT has been shown to transport structural proteins, including tubulin, into growing cilia. The BBSome is an adapter for the transport of ciliary membrane proteins and cycles through cilia via IFT. While both the loss and the abnormal accumulation of ciliary membrane proteins have been observed in bbs mutants, recent data converge on a model where the BBSome mainly functions as a cargo adapter for the removal of certain transmembrane and peripheral membrane proteins from cilia. Here, we review recent data on the ultrastructure of the BBSome and how the BBSome recognizes its cargoes and mediates their removal from cilia.
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Sokolov M, Yadav RP, Brooks C, Artemyev NO. Chaperones and retinal disorders. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2018; 114:85-117. [PMID: 30635087 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2018.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Defects in protein folding and trafficking are a common cause of photoreceptor degeneration, causing blindness. Photoreceptor cells present an unusual challenge to the protein folding and transport machinery due to the high rate of protein synthesis, trafficking and the renewal of the outer segment, a primary cilium that has been modified into a specialized light-sensing compartment. Phototransduction components, such as rhodopsin and cGMP-phosphodiesterase, and multimeric ciliary transport complexes, such as the BBSome, are hotspots for mutations that disrupt proteostasis and lead to the death of photoreceptors. In this chapter, we review recent studies that advance our understanding of the chaperone and transport machinery of phototransduction proteins.
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- Maxim Sokolov
- Department of Ophthalmology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, United States; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, United States.
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Dam J. [Traffic and signalisation of the leptin receptor]. Biol Aujourdhui 2018; 212:35-43. [PMID: 30362454 DOI: 10.1051/jbio/2018020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Receptors are the master regulators conveying the information provided by the hormone from the extracellular environment to the intracellular milieu. As a result, the level of receptors at the cell surface can determine the signaling strength. Regulation of receptor trafficking to the cell surface or receptor retention processes in intracellular compartments are key mechanisms for leptin receptor (ObR) activity. An alteration of these mechanisms leads to the development of obesity. However, the canonical mechanism of plasma membrane receptors activation is challenged by the discovery that intracellular receptors also have their own signaling activity inside specific intracellular compartments. These intracellular receptors can trigger signaling that regulates a particular function, different from, or in continuity with, surface receptor signaling. We will address both these aspects by focusing particularly on the case of the leptin receptor (ObR), i.e., i) the regulation of its level of exposure to the cell surface and its impact on the development of obesity, and ii) the discovery of its location and signaling in some intracellular compartments.
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- Julie Dam
- Institut Cochin, Inserm U1016, CNRS UMR 8104, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 22 Rue Méchain, 75014 Paris, France
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Signor S, Nuzhdin S. Dynamic changes in gene expression and alternative splicing mediate the response to acute alcohol exposure in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 2018; 121:342-360. [PMID: 30143789 PMCID: PMC6133934 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-018-0136-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2018] [Revised: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Environmental changes typically cause rapid gene expression responses in the exposed organisms, including changes in the representation of gene isoforms with different functions or properties. Identifying the genes that respond to environmental change, including in genotype-specific ways, is an important step in treating the undesirable physiological effects of stress, such as exposure to toxins or ethanol. Ethanol is a unique environmental stress in that chronic exposure results in permanent physiological changes and the development of alcohol use disorders. Drosophila is a classic model for deciphering the mechanisms of the response to alcohol exposure, as it meets the criteria for the development of alcohol use disorders, and has similar physiological underpinnings with vertebrates. Because many studies on the response to ethanol have relied on a priori candidate genes, broad surveys of gene expression and splicing are required and have been investigated here. Further, we expose Drosophila to ethanol in an environment that is genetically, socially, and ecologically relevant. Both expression and splicing differences, inasmuch as they can be decomposed, contribute to the response to ethanol in Drosophila melanogaster. However, we find that while D. melanogaster responds to ethanol, there is very little genetic variation in how it responds to ethanol. In addition, the response to alcohol over time is dynamic, suggesting that incorporating time into studies on the response to the environment is important.
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- Sarah Signor
- Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Derks MFL, Lopes MS, Bosse M, Madsen O, Dibbits B, Harlizius B, Groenen MAM, Megens HJ. Balancing selection on a recessive lethal deletion with pleiotropic effects on two neighboring genes in the porcine genome. PLoS Genet 2018; 14:e1007661. [PMID: 30231021 PMCID: PMC6166978 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Revised: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Livestock populations can be used to study recessive defects caused by deleterious alleles. The frequency of deleterious alleles including recessive lethal alleles can stay at high or moderate frequency within a population, especially if recessive lethal alleles exhibit an advantage for favourable traits in heterozygotes. In this study, we report such a recessive lethal deletion of 212kb (del) within the BBS9 gene in a breeding population of pigs. The deletion produces a truncated BBS9 protein expected to cause a complete loss-of-function, and we find a reduction of approximately 20% on the total number of piglets born from carrier by carrier matings. Homozygous del/del animals die mid- to late-gestation, as observed from high increase in numbers of mummified piglets resulting from carrier-by-carrier crosses. The moderate 10.8% carrier frequency (5.4% allele frequency) in this pig population suggests an advantage on a favourable trait in heterozygotes. Indeed, heterozygous carriers exhibit increased growth rate, an important selection trait in pig breeding. Increased growth and appetite together with a lower birth weight for carriers of the BBS9 null allele in pigs is analogous to the phenotype described in human and mouse for (naturally occurring) BBS9 null-mutants. We show that fetal death, however, is induced by reduced expression of the downstream BMPER gene, an essential gene for normal foetal development. In conclusion, this study describes a lethal 212kb deletion with pleiotropic effects on two different genes, one resulting in fetal death in homozygous state (BMPER), and the other increasing growth (BBS9) in heterozygous state. We provide strong evidence for balancing selection resulting in an unexpected high frequency of a lethal allele in the population. This study shows that the large amounts of genomic and phenotypic data routinely generated in modern commercial breeding programs deliver a powerful tool to monitor and control lethal alleles much more efficiently. We report a large deletion within the BBS9 gene that induces late fetal mortality in homozygous affected animals in a commercial pig population. This late fetal mortality causes the fetus to become encapsulated and desiccated during the remaining time of the pregnancy, a process called mummification. The unusually high carrier frequency for this lethal deletion (10.8%) likely results from its strong positive association with growth rate in heterozygous individuals, an important selection trait in the pig breeding industry. Interestingly, we show that the positive effect on growth is induced by a heterozygous loss-of-function of the BBS9 gene, associated with obesity in human and mouse. However, late fetal mortality is induced by insufficient expression of the BMPER gene located directly downstream of the deletion which affects its regulatory elements required for gene expression. Together, our study shows an unique example of allelic pleiotropy in which one allele (deletion) is responsible for both increased growth and late fetal mortality by affecting two different genes.
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- Martijn F. L. Derks
- Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Topigs Norsvin Research Center, Beuningen, the Netherlands
- Topigs Norsvin, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Lewis WR, Bales KL, Revell DZ, Croyle MJ, Engle SE, Song CJ, Malarkey EB, Uytingco CR, Shan D, Antonellis PJ, Nagy TR, Kesterson RA, Mrug MM, Martens JR, Berbari NF, Gross AK, Yoder BK. Mks6 mutations reveal tissue- and cell type-specific roles for the cilia transition zone. FASEB J 2018; 33:1440-1455. [PMID: 30133325 PMCID: PMC6355093 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201801149r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The transition zone (TZ) is a domain at the base of the cilium that is involved in maintaining ciliary compartment-specific sensory and signaling activity by regulating cilia protein composition. Mutations in TZ proteins result in cilia dysfunction, often causing pleiotropic effects observed in a group of human diseases classified as ciliopathies. The purpose of this study is to describe the importance of the TZ component Meckel-Grüber syndrome 6 ( Mks6) in several organ systems and tissues regarding ciliogenesis and cilia maintenance using congenital and conditional mutant mouse models. Similar to MKS, congenital loss of Mks6 is embryonic lethal, displaying cilia loss and altered cytoskeletal microtubule modifications but only in specific cell types. Conditional Mks6 mutants have a variable cystic kidney phenotype along with severe retinal degeneration with mislocalization of phototransduction cascade proteins. However, other phenotypes, such as anosmia and obesity, which are typically associated with cilia and TZ dysfunction, were not evident. These data indicate that despite Mks6 being a core TZ component, it has tissue- or cell type-specific functions important for cilia formation and cilia sensory and signaling activities. Lewis, W. R., Bales, K. L., Revell, D. Z., Croyle, M. J., Engle, S. E., Song, C. J., Malarkey, E. B., Uytingco, C. R., Shan, D., Antonellis, P. J., Nagy, T. R., Kesterson, R. A., Mrug, M. M., Martens, J. R., Berbari, N. F., Gross, A. K., Yoder, B. K. Mks6 mutations reveal tissue- and cell type-specific roles for the cilia transition zone.
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- Wesley R Lewis
- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; and
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- Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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Saternos HC, AbouAlaiwi WA. Signaling interplay between primary cilia and nitric oxide: A mini review. Nitric Oxide 2018; 80:108-112. [PMID: 30099097 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2018.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Revised: 06/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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New discoveries into the functional role of primary cilia are on the rise. In little more than 20 years, research has shown the once vestigial organelle is a signaling powerhouse involved in a vast number of essential cellular processes. In the same decade that interest in primary cilia was burgeoning, nitric oxide won molecule of the year and a Nobel prize for its role as a near ubiquitous signaling molecule. Although primary cilia and nitric oxide are both involved in signaling, a direct relationship has not been investigated; however, after a quick review of the literature, parallels between their functions can be drawn. This review aims to suggest a possible interplay between primary cilia and nitric oxide signaling especially in the areas of vascular tissue homeostasis and cellular proliferation.
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- Hannah C Saternos
- University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, USA
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- University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, USA.
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Morthorst SK, Christensen ST, Pedersen LB. Regulation of ciliary membrane protein trafficking and signalling by kinesin motor proteins. FEBS J 2018; 285:4535-4564. [PMID: 29894023 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Revised: 05/09/2018] [Accepted: 06/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Primary cilia are antenna-like sensory organelles that regulate a substantial number of cellular signalling pathways in vertebrates, both during embryonic development as well as in adulthood, and mutations in genes coding for ciliary proteins are causative of an expanding group of pleiotropic diseases known as ciliopathies. Cilia consist of a microtubule-based axoneme core, which is subtended by a basal body and covered by a bilayer lipid membrane of unique protein and lipid composition. Cilia are dynamic organelles, and the ability of cells to regulate ciliary protein and lipid content in response to specific cellular and environmental cues is crucial for balancing ciliary signalling output. Here we discuss mechanisms involved in regulation of ciliary membrane protein trafficking and signalling, with main focus on kinesin-2 and kinesin-3 family members.
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Nachury MV. The molecular machines that traffic signaling receptors into and out of cilia. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2018; 51:124-131. [PMID: 29579578 PMCID: PMC5949257 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2018.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2018] [Revised: 03/06/2018] [Accepted: 03/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Cilia are surface-exposed organelles that dynamically concentrate signaling molecules to organize sensory, developmental and homeostatic pathways. Entry and exit of signaling receptors is germane to the processing of signals and the molecular machines for entry and exit have started to emerge. The IFT-A complex and its membrane recruitment factor Tulp3 complex promotes the entry of signaling receptors into cilia while the BBSome and its membrane recruitment factor Arl6GTP ferry activated signaling receptors out of cilia. Ciliary exit is a surprisingly complex process entailing passage through a first diffusion barrier at the transition zone, diffusion inside an intermediate compartment and crossing of a periciliary diffusion barrier. The two barriers may organize a privileged compartment where activated signaling receptors transiently reside.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maxence V Nachury
- UCSF School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, United States.
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