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ArticleThe Journal of cell biology2024

Intraflagellar transport speed is sensitive to genetic and mechanical perturbations to flagellar beating.

Sophie Gray, Cecile Fort, Richard John Wheeler

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Article in The Journal of cell biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Axonemal dynein contributions to flagellar beat types and waveforms.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  2. Intraflagellar transport trains can switch rails and move along multiple microtubules in intact primary cilia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Sophie GrayNuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0009-0001-5897-3193
Cecile FortNuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3248-3505
Richard John WheelerNuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4270-8360

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/T008784/1University of OxfordWellcome TrustWellcome Trust 211075/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two sets of motor proteins underpin motile cilia/flagella function. The axoneme-associated inner and outer dynein arms drive sliding of adjacent axoneme microtubule doublets to periodically bend the flagellum for beating, while intraflagellar transport (IFT) kinesins and dyneins carry IFT trains bidirectionally along the axoneme. Despite assembling motile cilia and flagella, IFT train speeds have only previously been quantified in immobilized flagella-mechanical immobilization or genetic paralysis. This has limited investigation of the interaction between IFT and flagellar beating. Here, in uniflagellate Leishmania parasites, we use high-frequency, dual-color fluorescence microscopy to visualize IFT train movement in beating flagella. We discovered that adhesion of flagella to a microscope slide is detrimental, reducing IFT train speed and increasing train stalling. In flagella free to move, IFT train speed is not strongly dependent on flagella beat type; however, permanent disruption of flagella beating by deletion of genes necessary for formation or regulation of beating showed an inverse correlation of beat frequency and IFT train speed.

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FlagellaLeishmaniaMicrotubulesAxonemeBiological TransportCiliaDyneinsKinesinsProtozoan ProteinsDyneinsKinesinsProtozoan Proteins

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PMID38829962
PMCPMC11148470

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