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  3. WDR8 is a centriolar satellite and centriole-associated protein that promotes ciliary vesicle docking during ciliogenesis

WDR8 is a centriolar satellite and centriole-associated protein that promotes ciliary vesicle docking during ciliogenesis

  • J Cell Sci. 2016 Feb 1;129(3):621-36. doi: 10.1242/jcs.179713.
Bahtiyar Kurtulmus 1,  Wenbo Wang 2,  Thomas Ruppert 3,  Annett Neuner 3,  Berati Cerikan 3,  Linda Viol 1,  Rafael Dueñas-Sánchez 4,  Oliver J Gruss 5,  Gislene Pereira 6
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, Heidelberg 69120, Germany Division of Centrosomes and Cilia, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 581, Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
  • 2 Division of Centrosomes and Cilia, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 581, Heidelberg 69120, Germany Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
  • 3 Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
  • 4 Division of Centrosomes and Cilia, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 581, Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
  • 5 Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, Heidelberg 69120, Germany gislene.pereira@cos.uni-heidelberg.de o.gruss@uni-bonn.de.
  • 6 Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, Heidelberg 69120, Germany Division of Centrosomes and Cilia, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 581, Heidelberg 69120, Germany gislene.pereira@cos.uni-heidelberg.de o.gruss@uni-bonn.de.
PMID: 26675238 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.179713
Abstract

Ciliogenesis initiates at the mother centriole through a series of events that include membrane docking, displacement of cilia-inhibitory proteins and axoneme elongation. Centriolar proteins, in particular at distal and subdistal appendages, carry out these functions. Recently, cytoplasmic complexes named centriolar satellites have also been shown to promote ciliogenesis. Little is known about the functional and molecular relationship between appendage proteins, satellites and cilia biogenesis. Here, we identified the WD-repeat protein 8 (WDR8, also known as WRAP73) as a satellite and centriolar component. We show that WDR8 interacts with the satellite proteins SSX2IP and PCM1 as well as the centriolar proximal end component Cep135. Cep135 is required for the recruitment of WDR8 to centrioles. Depletion experiments revealed that WDR8 and Cep135 have strongly overlapping functions in ciliogenesis. Both are indispensable for ciliary vesicle docking to the mother centriole and for unlocking the distal end of the mother centriole from the ciliary inhibitory complex CP110-Cep97. Our data thus point to an important function of centriolar proximal end proteins in ciliary membrane biogenesis, and establish WDR8 and Cep135 as two factors that are essential for the initial steps of ciliation.

Keywords

Basal body; Centrosomes; Cep135; Cilia; SSX2IP; Satellites; WDR8; WRAP73.

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