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 …

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 …

The molecular structure of IFT-A and IFT-B in anterograde intraflagellar transport trains

SE Lacey, HE Foster, G Pigino - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Anterograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) trains are essential for cilia assembly and
maintenance. These trains are formed of 22 IFT-A and IFT-B proteins that link structural and …

Translation dynamics in human cells visualized at high resolution reveal cancer drug action

H Xing, R Taniguchi, I Khusainov, JP Kreysing… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ribosomes catalyze protein synthesis by cycling through various functional states. These
states have been extensively characterized in vitro, but their distribution in actively …

Genetically encoded multimeric tags for subcellular protein localization in cryo-EM

HKH Fung, Y Hayashi, VT Salo, A Babenko, I Zagoriy… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows for label-free high-resolution imaging of
macromolecular assemblies in their native cellular context. However, the localization of …

Native doublet microtubules from Tetrahymena thermophila reveal the importance of outer junction proteins

S Kubo, CS Black, E Joachimiak, SK Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cilia are ubiquitous eukaryotic organelles responsible for cellular motility and sensory
functions. The ciliary axoneme is a microtubule-based cytoskeleton consisting of two central …

Biochemically validated structural model of the 15‐subunit intraflagellar transport complex IFT‐B

NA Petriman, M Loureiro‐López, M Taschner… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Cilia are ubiquitous eukaryotic organelles impotant for cellular motility, signaling, and
sensory reception. Cilium formation requires intraflagellar transport of structural and …

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 …

Human IFT-A complex structures provide molecular insights into ciliary transport

M Jiang, VR Palicharla, D Miller, SH Hwang, H Zhu… - Cell Research, 2023 - nature.com
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) complexes, IFT-A and IFT-B, form bidirectional trains that move
along the axonemal microtubules and are essential for assembling and maintaining cilia …

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 …