Clinical detection, diagnosis and treatment of morphological abnormalities of sperm flagella: A review of literature

J Wang, W Wang, L Shen, A Zheng, Q Meng, H Li… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Sperm carries male genetic information, and flagella help move the sperm to reach oocytes.
When the ultrastructure of the flagella is abnormal, the sperm is unable to reach the oocyte …

IFT-A structure reveals carriages for membrane protein transport into cilia

SJ Hesketh, AG Mukhopadhyay, D Nakamura… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) trains are massive molecular machines that traffic proteins
between cilia and the cell body. Each IFT train is a dynamic polymer of two large complexes …

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 …

Structural insight into the intraflagellar transport complex IFT-A and its assembly in the anterograde IFT train

Y Ma, J He, S Li, D Yao, C Huang, J Wu… - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) trains, the polymers composed of two multi-subunit complexes,
IFT-A and IFT-B, carry out bidirectional intracellular transport in cilia, vital for cilia biogenesis …

Skeletal ciliopathy: pathogenesis and related signaling pathways

B Lai, H Jiang, Y Gao, X Zhou - Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2024 - Springer
Cilia are tiny organelles with conserved structures and components in eukaryotic cells.
Ciliopathy is a set of diseases resulting from cilium dysfunction classified into first-order and …

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 …

ARL3 and ARL13B GTPases participate in distinct steps of INPP5E targeting to the ciliary membrane

S Fujisawa, H Qiu, S Nozaki, S Chiba, Y Katoh… - Biology …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT INPP5E, a phosphoinositide 5-phosphatase, localizes on the ciliary membrane
via its C-terminal prenyl moiety, and maintains the distinct ciliary phosphoinositide …

BROMI/TBC1D32 together with CCRK/CDK20 and FAM149B1/JBTS36 contributes to intraflagellar transport turnaround involving ICK/CILK1

Y Satoda, T Noguchi, T Fujii, A Taniguchi… - Molecular biology of …, 2022 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Primary cilia are antenna-like organelles that contain specific proteins, and are crucial for
tissue morphogenesis. Anterograde and retrograde trafficking of ciliary proteins are …

Compound heterozygous IFT81 variations in a skeletal ciliopathy patient cause Bardet–Biedl syndrome-like ciliary defects

K Tasaki, Z Zhou, Y Ishida, Y Katoh… - Human Molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Owing to their crucial roles in development and homeostasis, defects in cilia cause
ciliopathies with diverse clinical manifestations. The intraflagellar transport (IFT) machinery …

CEP19–RABL2–IFT-B axis controls BBSome-mediated ciliary GPCR export

Z Zhou, Y Katoh, K Nakayama - Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2022 - Am Soc Cell Biol
The intraflagellar transport (IFT) machinery mediates the import and export of ciliary proteins
across the ciliary gate, as well as bidirectional protein trafficking within cilia. In addition to …