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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 339-344Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.029
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- National Institutes of Health [GM051487]
- Sandler Family Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- NIH/NCI Cancer Center [P30 CA082103]
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Ciliary compartmentalization plays pivotal roles in ciliogenesis and in various signaling pathways. Here we describe a structure at the ciliary base that appears to have all the features required for compartmentalization and which we thus call the ciliary partitioning system (CPS). This complex consists of the terminal plate, which serves as a cytosolic ciliary pore complex (CPC), and a membrane region well suited to serve as a diffusion barrier. The CPC is a plate-shaped structure containing nine pores through which the microtubule doublets of the basal body pass. Each pore expands from the doublet B-tubule into an opening well suited for the passage of intraflagellar transport particles. The membrane diffusion barrier encompasses an extended region of detergent-resistant periciliary membrane (ciliary pocket) and a ring complex that connects the CPC to the membrane. Proteomics analysis shows involvement of the ciliary pocket in vesicle trafficking, suggesting that this region plays an active role in membrane transport. The CPC and the ring together form a complete partition defining the ciliary boundary.
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