Abstract:
:Primary cilia are conserved organelles that play crucial roles as mechano- and chemosensors, as well as transducing signaling cascades. Consequently, ciliary dysfunction results in a broad range of phenotypes: the ciliopathies. Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), a model ciliopathy, is caused by mutations in 16 known genes. However, the biochemical functions of the BBS proteins are not fully understood. Here we show that the BBS7 protein (localized in the centrosomes, basal bodies and cilia) probably has a nuclear role by virtue of the presence of a biologically confirmed nuclear export signal. Consistent with this observation, we show that BBS7 interacts physically with the polycomb group (PcG) member RNF2 and regulate its protein levels, probably through a proteasome-mediated mechanism. In addition, our data supports a similar role for other BBS proteins. Importantly, the interaction with this PcG member is biologically relevant because loss of BBS proteins leads to the aberrant expression of endogenous RNF2 targets in vivo, including several genes that are crucial for development and for cellular and tissue homeostasis. Our data indicate a hitherto unappreciated, direct role for the BBS proteins in transcriptional regulation and potentially expand the mechanistic spectrum that underpins the development of ciliary phenotypes in patients.
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J Cell Scijournal_title
Journal of cell scienceauthors
Gascue C,Tan PL,Cardenas-Rodriguez M,Libisch G,Fernandez-Calero T,Liu YP,Astrada S,Robello C,Naya H,Katsanis N,Badano JLdoi
10.1242/jcs.089375subject
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2012-01-15 00:00:00pages
362-75issue
Pt 2eissn
0021-9533issn
1477-9137pii
jcs.089375journal_volume
125pub_type
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