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ArticleeLife2023

Structures of human dynein in complex with the lissencephaly 1 protein, LIS1.

Janice M Reimer, Morgan E DeSantis, Samara L Reck-Peterson, Andres E Leschziner

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Article in eLife, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Non-transport functions of motor proteins in corticogenesis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  8. Multiple steps of dynein activation by Lis1 visualized by cryo-EM.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025
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  10. Nde1 Promotes Lis1 Binding to Full-Length Autoinhibited Human Dynein-1.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  15. NUDC is critical for rod photoreceptor function, maintenance, and survival.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2024
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  17. Nde1 Promotes Lis1-Mediated Activation of Dynein.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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  20. New pieces for the Lis1-dynein puzzle.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Janice M ReimerDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.
Morgan E DeSantisDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4096-8548
Samara L Reck-PetersonDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1553-465X
Andres E LeschzinerDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7732-7023
University of California San Diego · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

Mechanism of cytoskeletal transport and transcription-coupled DNA repairR35GM145296 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Andres E Leschziner · 2022 to 2026
$3.5M
Regulation of Cytoplasmic DyneinR01GM107214 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI LESCHZINER, ANDRES · 2014 to 2021
$3.1M
Mechanisms of microtubule-based transportR35GM141825 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI RECK-PETERSON, SAMARA L · 2021 to 2025
$1.9M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107214NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM141825NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM145296
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lissencephaly 1 protein, LIS1, is mutated in type-1 lissencephaly and is a key regulator of cytoplasmic dynein-1. At a molecular level, current models propose that LIS1 activates dynein by relieving its autoinhibited form. Previously we reported a 3.1 Å structure of yeast dynein bound to Pac1, the yeast homologue of LIS1, which revealed the details of their interactions (Gillies et al., 2022). Based on this structure, we made mutations that disrupted these interactions and showed that they were required for dynein's function in vivo in yeast. We also used our yeast dynein-Pac1 structure to design mutations in human dynein to probe the role of LIS1 in promoting the assembly of active dynein complexes. These mutations had relatively mild effects on dynein activation, suggesting that there may be differences in how dynein and Pac1/LIS1 interact between yeast and humans. Here, we report cryo-EM structures of human dynein-LIS1 complexes. Our new structures reveal the differences between the yeast and human systems, provide a blueprint to disrupt the human dynein-LIS1 interactions more accurately, and map type-1 lissencephaly disease mutations, as well as mutations in dynein linked to malformations of cortical development/intellectual disability, in the context of the dynein-LIS1 complex.

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Classical Lissencephalies and Subcortical Band HeterotopiasSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsDyneinsEndoribonucleasesHumansMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeDyneinsEndoribonucleasesMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsPAC1 protein, S cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinscell biologycryo-electron microscopydyneinhumanLis1lissencephalymalformations of cortical developmentmolecular biophysicsstructural biology

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PMID36692009
PMCPMC9889085
OpenAlexW4317869419

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