Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 589, Issue 22, Pages 3479-3491Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.07.031
Keywords
Bardet-Biedl syndrome; Cilia; Ciliopathies
Funding
- ANII-Innova
- FOCEM (MERCOSUR Structural Convergence Fund)
- Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion (ANII Uruguay)
- Comision Academica de Posgrado, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
- ANII
- Programa para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Basicas (PEDECIBA, Uruguay)
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Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a genetically heterogeneous, pleiotropic disorder, characterized by both congenital and late onset defects. From the analysis of the mutational burden in patients to the functional characterization of the BBS proteins, this syndrome has become a model for both understanding oligogenic patterns of inheritance and the biology of a particular cellular organelle: the primary cilium. Here we briefly review the genetics of BBS to then focus on the function of the BBS proteins, not only in the context of the cilium but also highlighting potential extra-ciliary roles that could be relevant to the etiology of the disorder. Finally, we provide an overview of how the study of this rare syndrome has contributed to the understanding of cilia biology and how this knowledge has informed on the cellular basis of different clinical manifestations that characterize BBS and the ciliopathies. (C) 2015 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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