An essential quality control mechanism at the eukaryotic basal body prior to intraflagellar transport.
Constructing a eukaryotic cilium/flagellum is a demanding task requiring the transport of proteins from their cytoplasmic synthesis site into a spatially and environmentally distinct cellular compartment. The clear potential hazard is that import of aberrant proteins could seriously disable cilia/fl...
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| author | Stephan, A Vaughan, S Shaw, M Gull, K McKean, P |
| author_facet | Stephan, A Vaughan, S Shaw, M Gull, K McKean, P |
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| description | Constructing a eukaryotic cilium/flagellum is a demanding task requiring the transport of proteins from their cytoplasmic synthesis site into a spatially and environmentally distinct cellular compartment. The clear potential hazard is that import of aberrant proteins could seriously disable cilia/flagella assembly or turnover processes. Here, we reveal that tubulin protein destined for incorporation into axonemal microtubules interacts with a tubulin cofactor C (TBCC) domain-containing protein that is specifically located at the mature basal body transitional fibres. RNA interference-mediated ablation of this protein results in axonemal microtubule defects but no effect on other microtubule populations within the cell. Bioinformatics analysis indicates that this protein belongs to a clade of flagellum-specific TBCC-like proteins that includes the human protein, XRP2, mutations which lead to certain forms of the hereditary eye disease retinitis pigmentosa. Taken with other observations regarding the role of transitional fibres in cilium/flagellum assembly, we suggest that a localized protein processing capacity embedded at transitional fibres ensures the 'quality' of tubulin imported into the cilium/flagellum, and further, that loss of a ciliary/flagellar quality control capability may underpin a number of human genetic disorders. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:3067831f-bf21-4199-b967-a939c03fb0952022-03-26T13:01:14ZAn essential quality control mechanism at the eukaryotic basal body prior to intraflagellar transport.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:3067831f-bf21-4199-b967-a939c03fb095EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2007Stephan, AVaughan, SShaw, MGull, KMcKean, PConstructing a eukaryotic cilium/flagellum is a demanding task requiring the transport of proteins from their cytoplasmic synthesis site into a spatially and environmentally distinct cellular compartment. The clear potential hazard is that import of aberrant proteins could seriously disable cilia/flagella assembly or turnover processes. Here, we reveal that tubulin protein destined for incorporation into axonemal microtubules interacts with a tubulin cofactor C (TBCC) domain-containing protein that is specifically located at the mature basal body transitional fibres. RNA interference-mediated ablation of this protein results in axonemal microtubule defects but no effect on other microtubule populations within the cell. Bioinformatics analysis indicates that this protein belongs to a clade of flagellum-specific TBCC-like proteins that includes the human protein, XRP2, mutations which lead to certain forms of the hereditary eye disease retinitis pigmentosa. Taken with other observations regarding the role of transitional fibres in cilium/flagellum assembly, we suggest that a localized protein processing capacity embedded at transitional fibres ensures the 'quality' of tubulin imported into the cilium/flagellum, and further, that loss of a ciliary/flagellar quality control capability may underpin a number of human genetic disorders. |
| spellingShingle | Stephan, A Vaughan, S Shaw, M Gull, K McKean, P An essential quality control mechanism at the eukaryotic basal body prior to intraflagellar transport. |
| title | An essential quality control mechanism at the eukaryotic basal body prior to intraflagellar transport. |
| title_full | An essential quality control mechanism at the eukaryotic basal body prior to intraflagellar transport. |
| title_fullStr | An essential quality control mechanism at the eukaryotic basal body prior to intraflagellar transport. |
| title_full_unstemmed | An essential quality control mechanism at the eukaryotic basal body prior to intraflagellar transport. |
| title_short | An essential quality control mechanism at the eukaryotic basal body prior to intraflagellar transport. |
| title_sort | essential quality control mechanism at the eukaryotic basal body prior to intraflagellar transport |
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