Mutations in axonemal dynein assembly factor DNAAF3 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia
Open Access
- 4 March 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Genetics
- Vol. 44 (4), 381-389
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.1106
Abstract
David Mitchell, Hannah Mitchison and colleagues identify a new Chlamydomonas protein required for the preassembly of axonemal dyneins before their transport into cilia. They further show that mutations in the homologous gene in humans result in primary ciliary dyskinesia accompanied by defects in the assembly of inner and outer dynein arms. Primary ciliary dyskinesia most often arises from loss of the dynein motors that power ciliary beating. Here we show that DNAAF3 (also known as PF22), a previously uncharacterized protein, is essential for the preassembly of dyneins into complexes before their transport into cilia. We identified loss-of-function mutations in the human DNAAF3 gene in individuals from families with situs inversus and defects in the assembly of inner and outer dynein arms. Knockdown of dnaaf3 in zebrafish likewise disrupts dynein arm assembly and ciliary motility, causing primary ciliary dyskinesia phenotypes that include hydrocephalus and laterality malformations. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii PF22 is exclusively cytoplasmic, and a PF22-null mutant cannot assemble any outer and some inner dynein arms. Altered abundance of dynein subunits in mutant cytoplasm suggests that DNAAF3 (PF22) acts at a similar stage as other preassembly proteins, for example, DNAAF2 (also known as PF13 or KTU) and DNAAF1 (also known as ODA7 or LRRC50), in the dynein preassembly pathway. These results support the existence of a conserved, multistep pathway for the cytoplasmic formation of assembly competent ciliary dynein complexes.This publication has 67 references indexed in Scilit:
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