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ArticleScientific reports2020

Centrosome and ciliary abnormalities in fetal akinesia deformation sequence human fibroblasts.

Ramona Jühlen, Valérie Martinelli, Chiara Vinci, Jeroen Breckpot, Birthe Fahrenkrog

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ramona JühlenInstitute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 6041, Gosselies, Belgium.
Valérie MartinelliInstitute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 6041, Gosselies, Belgium.
Chiara VinciInstitute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 6041, Gosselies, Belgium.
Jeroen BreckpotCenter for Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Birthe FahrenkrogInstitute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 6041, Gosselies, Belgium. birthe.fahrenkrog@unibas.ch.
Université Libre de Bruxelles · BEKU Leuven · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ciliopathies are clinical disorders of the primary cilium with widely recognised phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity. Here, we found impaired ciliogenesis in fibroblasts derived from individuals with fetal akinesia deformation sequence (FADS), a broad spectrum of neuromuscular disorders arising from compromised foetal movement. We show that cells derived from FADS individuals have shorter and less primary cilia (PC), in association with alterations in post-translational modifications in α-tubulin. Similarly, siRNA-mediated depletion of two known FADS proteins, the scaffold protein rapsyn and the nucleoporin NUP88, resulted in defective PC formation. Consistent with a role in ciliogenesis, rapsyn and NUP88 localised to centrosomes and PC. Furthermore, proximity-ligation assays confirm the respective vicinity of rapsyn and NUP88 to γ-tubulin. Proximity-ligation assays moreover show that rapsyn and NUP88 are adjacent to each other and that the rapsyn-NUP88 interface is perturbed in the examined FADS cells. We suggest that the perturbed rapsyn-NUP88 interface leads to defects in PC formation and that defective ciliogenesis contributes to the pleiotropic defects seen in FADS.

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Abnormalities, MultipleArthrogryposisCell NucleusCell ProliferationCellular SenescenceCentrosomeCiliaFibroblastsHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMicroscopy, ConfocalMicrotubulesMuscle ProteinsNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsProtein IsoformsProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalMuscle ProteinsNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsNUP88 protein, humanperipheral membrane protein 43KProtein IsoformsRNA, Small InterferingTubulin

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PMID33168876
PMCPMC7652866
OpenAlexW3106100087

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