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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 219, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201908132
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/75847/2011]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [142492, 167279]
- Krembil Foundation
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/75847/2011] Funding Source: FCT
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Cilia and flagella are microtubule-based cellular projections with important sensory and motility functions. Their absence or malfunction is associated with a growing number of human diseases collectively referred to as ciliopathies. However, the fundamental mechanisms underpinning cilia biogenesis and functions remain only partly understood. Here, we show that depleting LUZP1 or its interacting protein, EPLIN, increases the levels of MyosinVa at the centrosome and primary cilia formation. We further show that LUZP1 localizes to both actin filaments and the centrosome/basal body. Like EPLIN, LUZP1 is an actin-stabilizing protein that regulates actin dynamics, at least in part, by mobilizing ARP2 to the centrosomes. Both LUZP1 and EPLIN interact with known ciliogenesis and cilia-length regulators and as such represent novel players in actin-dependent centrosome to basal body conversion. Ciliogenesis deregulation caused by LUZP1 or EPLIN loss may thus contribute to the pathology of their associated disease states.
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