Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16267272›Full record

ArticleMolecular biology of the cell2006

The flagellar motility of Chlamydomonas pf25 mutant lacking an AKAP-binding protein is overtly sensitive to medium conditions.

Chun Yang, Pinfen Yang

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Article in Molecular biology of the cell, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chun YangDepartment of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI 53233, USA.
Pinfen Yang
Marquette University · US

Funding

REGULATION OF DYNEIN-DRIVEN FLAGELLAR MOTILITYR01GM068101 · NIGMS · MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY · PI YANG, PINFEN · 2003 to 2009
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM-068101NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM068101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radial spokes are a conserved axonemal structural complex postulated to regulate the motility of 9 + 2 cilia and flagella via a network of phosphoenzymes and regulatory proteins. Consistently, a Chlamydomonas radial spoke protein, RSP3, has been identified by RII overlays as an A-kinase anchoring protein (AKAP) that localizes the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) holoenzyme by binding to the RIIa domain of PKA RII subunit. However, the highly conserved docking domain of PKA is also found in the N termini of several AKAP-binding proteins unrelated to PKA as well as a 24-kDa novel spoke protein, RSP11. Here, we report that RSP11 binds to RSP3 directly in vitro and colocalizes with RSP3 toward the spoke base near outer doublets and dynein motors in axonemes. Importantly, RSP11 mutant pf25 displays a spectrum of motility, from paralysis with flaccid or twitching flagella as other spoke mutants to wildtype-like swimming. The wide range of motility changes reversibly depending on the condition of liquid media without replacing defective proteins. We postulate that radial spokes use the RIIa/AKAP module to regulate ciliary and flagellar beating; absence of the spoke RIIa protein exposes a medium-sensitive regulatory mechanism that is not obvious in wild-type Chlamydomonas.

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Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAmino Acid SequenceAnimal MigrationAnimalsBase SequenceChlamydomonas reinhardtiiConserved SequenceCulture MediaCyclic AMP-Dependent Protein KinasesElectrophoresis, Gel, Two-DimensionalFlagellaMolecular Sequence DataMutationPlant ProteinsProtein BindingProtozoan ProteinsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCulture MediaCyclic AMP-Dependent Protein KinasesPlant ProteinsProtozoan Proteinsradial spoke protein, Chlamydomonas

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PMID16267272
PMCPMC1345661
OpenAlexW2109374807

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