Journal
JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 135, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.260408
Keywords
BBSome; Cilia; Flagella; Intraflagellar transport; Dynein arms; Radial spokes
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- National Institutes of Health
- [R01GM110413]
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The assembly and maintenance of cilia and eukaryotic flagella rely on intraflagellar transport (IFT), which involves the movement of IFT trains along microtubules. Adapters are used to transport ciliary proteins and complexes between the cell body and the organelle. These adapters expand the cargo range of IFT trains.
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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