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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

The Bardet-Biedl syndrome protein complex is an adapter expanding the cargo range of intraflagellar transport trains for ciliary export.

Peiwei Liu, Karl F Lechtreck

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers.

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85citing papers in PubMed
14.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

85 citing papers in PubMed, 141 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Broadening horizons: Pathogenesis and therapeutics of renal ciliopathies.Journal of cell communication and signaling · 2026
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  9. The intraflagellar transport cycle.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
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  10. Syndromic Retinitis Pigmentosa: A Narrative Review.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  12. Obesity-Related Ciliopathies: Focus on Advances of Biomarkers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  15. Uncovering cilia function in glial development.Annals of human genetics · 2024
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  17. RABL2 promotes the outward transition zone passage of signaling proteins in cilia via ARL3.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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25 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peiwei LiuDepartment of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.
Karl F LechtreckDepartment of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 lechtrek@uga.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6219-6470
University of Georgia · US

Funding

Regulation of protein transport in ciliaR01GM110413 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI LECHTRECK, KARL · 2014 to 2022
$2.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM110413
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a ciliopathy resulting from defects in the BBSome, a conserved protein complex. BBSome mutations affect ciliary membrane composition, impairing cilia-based signaling. The mechanism by which the BBSome regulates ciliary membrane content remains unknown.

Indexed as

MutationBardet-Biedl SyndromeBiological TransportCell MembraneChlamydomonas reinhardtiiCiliaFlagellaFluorescence Recovery After PhotobleachingHumansPhospholipase DPhotochemical ProcessesPhototaxisProtein DomainsProteinsProtein TransportTransgenesPhospholipase DProteinsBBSomeciliaciliopathyflagellaphospholipase D

Identifiers

PMID29339469
PMCPMC5798339
OpenAlexW2784271444

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