Primary cilia as dynamic and diverse signalling hubs in development and disease

P Mill, ST Christensen, LB Pedersen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Primary cilia, antenna-like sensory organelles protruding from the surface of most vertebrate
cell types, are essential for regulating signalling pathways during development and adult …

Structural biology of cilia and intraflagellar transport

N Klena, G Pigino - Annual review of cell and developmental …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Cilia are ubiquitous microtubule-based eukaryotic organelles that project from the cell to
generate motility or function in cellular signaling. Motile cilia or flagella contain axonemal …

Emerging mechanistic understanding of cilia function in cellular signalling

KI Hilgendorf, BR Myers, JF Reiter - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Primary cilia are solitary, immotile sensory organelles present on most cells in the body that
participate broadly in human health, physiology and disease. Cilia generate a unique …

Structure and mechanics of dynein motors

JT Canty, R Tan, E Kusakci… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Dyneins make up a family of AAA+ motors that move toward the minus end of microtubules.
Cytoplasmic dynein is responsible for transporting intracellular cargos in interphase cells …

Mechanism of IFT-A polymerization into trains for ciliary transport

S Meleppattu, H Zhou, J Dai, M Gui, A Brown - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is the highly conserved process by which proteins are
transported along ciliary microtubules by a train-like polymeric assembly of IFT-A and IFT-B …

Integrative modeling reveals the molecular architecture of the intraflagellar transport A (IFT-A) complex

CL McCafferty, O Papoulas, MA Jordan… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is a conserved process of cargo transport in cilia that is essential
for development and homeostasis in organisms ranging from algae to vertebrates. In …

A WDR35-dependent coat protein complex transports ciliary membrane cargo vesicles to cilia

T Quidwai, J Wang, EA Hall, NA Petriman, W Leng… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is a highly conserved mechanism for motor-driven transport of
cargo within cilia, but how this cargo is selectively transported to cilia is unclear …

Cargo adapters expand the transport range of intraflagellar transport

K Lechtreck - Journal of cell science, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
The assembly and maintenance of most cilia and eukaryotic flagella depends on
intraflagellar transport (IFT), the bidirectional movement of multi-megadalton IFT trains along …

Transport and barrier mechanisms that regulate ciliary compartmentalization and ciliopathies

AL Moran, L Louzao-Martinez, DP Norris… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Primary cilia act as cell surface antennae, coordinating cellular responses to sensory inputs
and signalling molecules that regulate developmental and homeostatic pathways. Cilia are …

Impaired cooperation between IFT74/BBS22–IFT81 and IFT25–IFT27/BBS19 causes Bardet-Biedl syndrome

Z Zhou, H Qiu, RF Castro-Araya, R Takei… - Human Molecular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The IFT-B complex mediates ciliary anterograde protein trafficking and membrane protein
export together with the BBSome. Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is caused by mutations in …