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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 21, Issue 15, Pages 2696-2706Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E10-03-0191
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- Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation [173G08a]
- National Science Foundation [MCB-0923835]
- Natioanl Institutes of Health [GM 61920]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [0923835] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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DYF-1 is a highly conserved protein essential for ciliogenesis in several model organisms. In Caenorhabditis elegans, DYF-1 serves as an essential activator for an anterograde motor OSM-3 of intraflagellar transport (IFT), the ciliogenesis-required motility that mediates the transport of flagellar precursors and removal of turnover products. In zebrafish and Tetrahymena DYF-1 influences the cilia tubulin posttranslational modification and may have more ubiquitous function in ciliogenesis than OSM-3. Here we address how DYF-1 biochemically interacts with the IFT machinery by using the model organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, in which the anterograde IFT does not depend on OSM-3. Our results show that this protein is a stoichiometric component of the IFT particle complex B and interacts directly with complex B subunit IFT46. In concurrence with the established IFT protein nomenclature, DYF-1 is also named IFT70 after the apparent size of the protein. IFT70/CrDYF-1 is essential for the function of IFT in building the flagellum because the flagella of IFT70/CrDYF-1-depleted cells were greatly shortened. Together, these results demonstrate that IFT70/CrDYF-1 is a canonical subunit of IFT particle complex B and strongly support the hypothesis that the IFT machinery has species-and tissue-specific variations with functional ramifications.
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