ReviewVision research2012
Kinesin-2 family motors in the unusual photoreceptor cilium.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Light intensity and opsin sensitivity shape the morphology of cone photoreceptor outer segments.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- KIF3C inhibits the progression and proliferation of colorectal cancer.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Article
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- Ciliary Proteins Repurposed by the Synaptic Ribbon: Trafficking Myristoylated Proteins at Rod Photoreceptor Synapses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Biallelic Variants inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- On the Wrong Track: Alterations of Ciliary Transport in Inherited Retinal Dystrophies.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Suppression of KIF3A inhibits triple negative breast cancer growth and metastasis by repressing Rb-E2F signaling and epithelial-mesenchymal transition.Cancer science · 2020Article
- KIF3C is associated with favorable prognosis in glioma patients and may be regulated by PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2020Article
- Silencing of KIF3B Suppresses Breast Cancer Progression by Regulating EMT and Wnt/Frontiers in oncology · 2020Article
- KIF3C Promotes Proliferation, Migration, and Invasion of Glioma Cells by Activating the PI3K/AKT Pathway and Inducing EMT.BioMed research international · 2020Article
- Insights into photoreceptor ciliogenesis revealed by animal models.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2019Review
- Involvement of ARHGEF10, GEF for RhoA, in Rab6/Rab8-mediating membrane traffic.Small GTPases · 2019Review
- Cilium structure, assembly, and disassembly regulated by the cytoskeleton.The Biochemical journal · 2018Review
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- Functional differentiation of cooperating kinesin-2 motors orchestrates cargo import and transport in C. elegans cilia.Nature cell biology · 2015Article
- Kinesin family 17 (osmotic avoidance abnormal-3) is dispensable for photoreceptor morphology and function.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2015Article
- From the cytoplasm into the cilium: bon voyage.Organogenesis · 2014Review
- Protein sorting, targeting and trafficking in photoreceptor cells.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2013Review
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
This review focuses on recent advances in the understanding of kinesin-2 family motors in vertebrate photoreceptor development. Zebrafish photoreceptors develop by the 3rd day of embryogenesis, making it possible to study mutant phenotypes without the use of conditional alleles. Recent work using a zebrafish kif3b mutant allele validates the concept that the heterotrimeric kinesin II motor is generally required for ciliogenesis. In zebrafish photoreceptors, however, loss of kif3b function delays but does not block cilium formation. This is thought to occur because both kif3b or kif3c can dimerize with kif3a and function redundantly. The second ciliary kinesin thought to function in photoreceptor cells is kif17. Prior work has shown that either morpholino knockdown of this gene or the overexpression of its dominant negative form can reduce or delay photoreceptor cilium development without any evident impact on ciliogenesis in general. This has led to the idea that kif17 may play an important role only in some specialized cilium types, such the one in photoreceptor cells. In a recently identified kif17 mutant, however, photoreceptor outer segments are formed by 5 dpf and an obvious delay of outer segment formation is seen only at the earliest stage analyzed (3 dpf). This work suggests that kif17 plays a significant role mainly at an early stage of photoreceptor development. Taken together, these studies lead to an intriguing concept that as they differentiate photoreceptors alter their kinesin repertoire.
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