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Pitchfork regulates primary cilia disassembly and left-right asymmetry.
Dev. Cell 19, 66-77 (2010)
A variety of developmental disorders have been associated with ciliary defects, yet the controls that govern cilia disassembly are largely unknown. Here we report a mouse embryonic node gene, which we named Pitchfork (Pifo). Pifo associates with ciliary targeting complexes and accumulates at the basal body during cilia disassembly. Haploinsufficiency causes a unique node cilia duplication phenotype, left-right asymmetry defects, and heart failure. This phenotype is likely relevant in humans, because we identified a heterozygous R80K PIFO mutation in a fetus with situs inversus and cystic liver and kidneys, and in patient with double-outflow right ventricle. We show that PIFO, but not R80K PIFO, is sufficient to activate Aurora A, a protooncogenic kinase that induces cilia retraction, and that Pifo/PIFO mutation causes cilia retraction, basal body liberation, and overreplication defects. Thus, the observation of a disassembly phenotype in vivo provides an entry point to understand and categorize ciliary disease.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Bardet-Biedl-Syndrome; Intraflagellar transport; Molecular-cloning; Nodal Expression; Sperm tail; Mouse; Proteins; Centrosome; Cells; Genes
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1534-5807
e-ISSN
1878-1551
Journal
Developmental Cell
Quellenangaben
Volume: 19,
Issue: 1,
Pages: 66-77
Publisher
Elsevier
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Peer reviewed