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 …

Establishing and regulating the composition of cilia for signal transduction

MV Nachury, DU Mick - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The primary cilium is a hair-like surface-exposed organelle of the eukaryotic cell that
decodes a variety of signals—such as odorants, light and Hedgehog morphogens—by …

How the ciliary membrane is organized inside-out to communicate outside-in

G Garcia, DR Raleigh, JF Reiter - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Cilia, organelles that move to execute functions like fertilization and signal to execute
functions like photoreception and embryonic patterning, are composed of a core of nine-fold …

The centrosome and the primary cilium: the yin and yang of a hybrid organelle

V Joukov, A De Nicolo - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Centrosomes and primary cilia are usually considered as distinct organelles, although both
are assembled with the same evolutionary conserved, microtubule-based templates, the …

A phylogenetic profiling approach identifies novel ciliogenesis genes in Drosophila and C. elegans

J Dobbelaere, TY Su, B Erdi, A Schleiffer… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Cilia are cellular projections that perform sensory and motile functions in eukaryotic cells. A
defining feature of cilia is that they are evolutionarily ancient, yet not universally conserved …

Towards understanding centriole elimination

N Kalbfuss, P Gönczy - Open Biology, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Centrioles are microtubule-based structures crucial for forming flagella, cilia and
centrosomes. Through these roles, centrioles are critical notably for proper cell motility …

Local microtubule organization promotes cargo transport in C. elegans dendrites

M Harterink, SL Edwards, B de Haan… - Journal of cell …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
The specific organization of the neuronal microtubule cytoskeleton in axons and dendrites is
an evolutionarily conserved determinant of neuronal polarity that allows for selective cargo …

Ciliary Rab28 and the BBSome negatively regulate extracellular vesicle shedding

JS Akella, SP Carter, K Nguyen, S Tsiropoulou… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Cilia both receive and send information, the latter in the form of extracellular vesicles (EVs).
EVs are nano-communication devices that influence cell, tissue, and organism behavior …

A modified TurboID approach identifies tissue-specific centriolar components in C. elegans

E Holzer, C Rumpf-Kienzl, S Falk… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Proximity-dependent labeling approaches such as BioID have been a great boon to studies
of protein-protein interactions in the context of cytoskeletal structures such as centrosomes …

Centriole-less pericentriolar material serves as a microtubule organizing center at the base of C. elegans sensory cilia

J Magescas, S Eskinazi, MV Tran, JL Feldman - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
During mitosis in animal cells, the centrosome acts as a microtubule organizing center
(MTOC) to assemble the mitotic spindle. MTOC function at the centrosome is driven by …