Abstract
Primary cilia are formed in nearly all growth-arrested cells and are essential for mammalian development and tissue homeostasis. Defects in primary cilia result in a range of disorders in humans, named ciliopathies. The spatiotemporal localization of RABIN8 on the pericentrosome is an early step in ciliogenesis. Here, we show that CENTLEIN depletion causes the persistent accumulation of RABIN8 on the pericentrosome and primary cilium loss in hTERT-immortalized retinal pigment epithelial cells and murine embryonic fibroblasts. CENTLEIN interacts with RABIN8 directly. A stretch of a 31-amino acid sequence located in the 200‒230 region of the RABIN8 GEF domain is responsible for its physical interaction with CENTLEIN, while expression of the full-length but not the internal deletion lacking the RABIN8-binding site of CENTLEIN largely rescues the ciliogenesis defect provoked by CENTLEIN depletion. Expression of activated RAB8A partially reverses cilium loss in CENTLEIN-null RPE1 cells, so the functional importance of the CENTLEIN-RABIN8 interaction is defined.
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