Intraflagellar transport proteins as regulators of primary cilia length

W Wang, BM Jack, HH Wang… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Primary cilia are small, antenna-like organelles that detect and transduce chemical and
mechanical cues in the extracellular environment, regulating cell behavior and, in turn …

The structural basis of intraflagellar transport at a glance

MA Jordan, G Pigino - Journal of cell science, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
The intraflagellar transport (IFT) system is a remarkable molecular machine used by cells to
assemble and maintain the cilium, a long organelle extending from eukaryotic cells that …

Cooperation of the IFT-A complex with the IFT-B complex is required for ciliary retrograde protein trafficking and GPCR import

T Kobayashi, Y Ishida, T Hirano, Y Katoh… - Molecular biology of …, 2021 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Cilia sense and transduce extracellular signals via specific receptors. The intraflagellar
transport (IFT) machinery mediates not only bidirectional protein trafficking within cilia but …

Mechanisms of regulation in intraflagellar transport

W Mul, A Mitra, EJG Peterman - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cilia are eukaryotic organelles essential for movement, signaling or sensing. Primary cilia
act as antennae to sense a cell's environment and are involved in a wide range of signaling …

Emerging principles of primary cilia dynamics in controlling tissue organization and function

J Gopalakrishnan, K Feistel, BM Friedrich… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Primary cilia project from the surface of most vertebrate cells and are key in sensing
extracellular signals and locally transducing this information into a cellular response. Recent …

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 …

ARL3 mediates BBSome ciliary turnover by promoting its outward movement across the transition zone

YX Liu, WY Sun, B Xue, RK Zhang, WJ Li, X Xie… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - rupress.org
Ciliary receptors and their certain downstream signaling components undergo intraflagellar
transport (IFT) as BBSome cargoes to maintain their ciliary dynamics for sensing and …

Motile cilia genetics and cell biology: big results from little mice

L Lee, LE Ostrowski - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Our understanding of motile cilia and their role in disease has increased tremendously over
the last two decades, with critical information and insight coming from the analysis of mouse …

Sonic hedgehog signaling in craniofacial development

J Xu, PPR Iyyanar, Y Lan, R Jiang - Differentiation, 2023 - Elsevier
Mutations in SHH and several other genes encoding components of the Hedgehog
signaling pathway have been associated with holoprosencephaly syndromes, with …

Multiple interactions of the dynein-2 complex with the IFT-B complex are required for effective intraflagellar transport

S Hiyamizu, H Qiu, L Vuolo… - Journal of Cell …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
The dynein-2 complex must be transported anterogradely within cilia to then drive
retrograde trafficking of the intraflagellar transport (IFT) machinery containing IFT-A and IFT …