Title
Characterization of mouse IFT complex B
PubMed ID
19253336
UMMS Affiliation
Program in Molecular Medicine
Date
3-3-2009
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Animals; Blotting, Western; Carrier Proteins; Cell Line; Cilia; Flagella; Golgi Apparatus; Immunoprecipitation; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Mice; Nuclear Proteins; Protein Binding; Tumor Suppressor Proteins
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
The primary cilium plays a key role in the development of mammals and in the maintenance of health. Primary cilia are assembled and maintained by the process of intraflagellar transport (IFT). In this work, we characterize mouse IFT complex B by identifying all of the mammalian orthologues of complex B and B-associated proteins previously identified in Chlamydomonas and Caenorhabditis and also identify a new component (IFT25/Hspb11) of complex B by database analysis. We tagged each of these proteins with the FLAG epitope and show that all except IFT172 and IFT20 localize to cilia and the peri-basal body or centrosomal region at the base of cilia. All of the proteins except IFT172 immunoprecipitate IFT88 indicating that they are co-assembled into a complex. IFT20 is the only complex B protein that localizes to the Golgi apparatus. However, overexpression of IFT54/Traf3ip1, the mouse orthologue of Dyf-11/Elipsa, displaces IFT20 from the Golgi apparatus. IFT54 does not localize to the Golgi complex nor does it interact with GMAP210, which is the protein that anchors IFT20 to the Golgi apparatus. This suggests that IFT54s effect on IFT20 is a dominant negative phenotype caused by its overexpression. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 2009. (c) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Citation: Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 2009 Aug;66(8):457-68. Link to article on publisher's site