Abstract
Cilia and flagella are conserved eukaryotic organelles essential for cellular signaling and motility. Cilia dysfunctions cause life-threatening ciliopathies, many of which are due to defects in the transition zone (TZ), a complex structure of the ciliary base. Therefore, understanding TZ assembly, which relies on ordered interactions of multiprotein modules, is of critical importance. Here, we show that Drosophila Dzip1 and Fam92 form a functional module which constrains the conserved core TZ protein, Cep290, to the ciliary base. We identify cell type specific roles of this functional module in two different tissues. While it is required for TZ assembly in all Drosophila ciliated cells, it also regulates basal-body growth and docking to the plasma membrane during spermatogenesis. We therefore demonstrate a novel regulatory role for Dzip1 and Fam92 in mediating membrane/basal-body interactions and show that these interactions exhibit cell type specific functions in basal-body maturation and TZ organization.
Highlights
Cilia and flagella are highly conserved organelles present at the surface of eukaryotic cells
By co-immunoprecipitating Cby-GFP and HA-Dzip1 or HA-Fam92, we demonstrate that Drosophila Dzip1 and Fam92, each interact with Cby (Figure 1—figure supplement 1B–C)
When all three proteins are expressed together, immunoprecipitation of GFP-Dzip1 pulls down both Cby and Fam92, suggesting that all three proteins are present in one complex when co-expressed in mammalian cells (Figure 1—figure supplement 1D)
Summary
Cilia and flagella are highly conserved organelles present at the surface of eukaryotic cells. A series of experiments showed that Cby interacts with two proteins called Dzip and Fam to regulate the assembly of transition zones. In addition to the core TZ components, several others have been identified but their precise relationships with the core known TZ components are not understood Among these other proteins, Chibby (Cby), a conserved TZ component in vertebrates and flies, is required for cilia function both in mammals and Drosophila (Burke et al, 2014; Voronina et al, 2009; Enjolras et al, 2012; Vieillard et al, 2016). These aberrant elongations mostly affect the daughter centrioles, revealing functional differences of the mother and daughter centrioles in Drosophila spermatocytes
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