A primary microcephaly protein complex forms a ring around parental centrioles
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- 9 October 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Genetics
- Vol. 43 (11), 1147-1153
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.971
Abstract
Fanni Gergely, Geoffrey Woods and colleagues identify a disease-associated CEP63 mutation in a family with primary microcephaly. They further show that CEP63 and CEP152 interact and form a discrete ring around the proximal end of the parental centriole, implicating this complex in the regulation of centrosome number. Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH) is characterized by a substantial reduction in prenatal human brain growth without alteration of the cerebral architecture and is caused by biallelic mutations in genes coding for a subset of centrosomal proteins1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Although at least three of these proteins have been implicated in centrosome duplication11, the nature of the centrosome dysfunction that underlies the neurodevelopmental defect in MCPH is unclear. Here we report a homozygous MCPH-causing mutation in human CEP63. CEP63 forms a complex with another MCPH protein, CEP152, a conserved centrosome duplication factor12,13,14,15. Together, these two proteins are essential for maintaining normal centrosome numbers in cells. Using super-resolution microscopy, we found that CEP63 and CEP152 co-localize in a discrete ring around the proximal end of the parental centriole, a pattern specifically disrupted in CEP63-deficient cells derived from patients with MCPH. This work suggests that the CEP152-CEP63 ring-like structure ensures normal neurodevelopment and that its impairment particularly affects human cerebral cortex growth.Keywords
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