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Functional partitioning of a liquid-like organelle during assembly of axonemal dyneins

  1. Chanjae Lee
  2. Rachael M Cox
  3. Ophelia Papoulas
  4. Amjad Horani
  5. Kevin Drew
  6. Caitlin C Devitt
  7. Steven L Brody
  8. Edward M Marcotte  Is a corresponding author
  9. John B Wallingford  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Texas at Austin, United States
  2. Washington University School of Medicine, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58662
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  1. Chanjae Lee
  2. Rachael M Cox
  3. Ophelia Papoulas
  4. Amjad Horani
  5. Kevin Drew
  6. Caitlin C Devitt
  7. Steven L Brody
  8. Edward M Marcotte
  9. John B Wallingford
(2020)
Functional partitioning of a liquid-like organelle during assembly of axonemal dyneins
eLife 9:e58662.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58662
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Abstract

Ciliary motility is driven by axonemal dyneins that are assembled in the cytoplasm before deployment to cilia. Motile ciliopathy can result from defects in the dyneins themselves or from defects in factors required for their cytoplasmic pre-assembly. Recent work demonstrates that axonemal dyneins, their specific assembly factors, and broadly acting chaperones are concentrated in liquid-like organelles in the cytoplasm called DynAPs (Dynein Axonemal Particles). Here, we use in vivo imaging in Xenopus to show that inner dynein arm (IDA) and outer dynein arm (ODA) subunits are partitioned into non-overlapping sub-regions within DynAPs. Using affinity purification mass-spectrometry of in vivo interaction partners, we also identify novel partners for inner and outer dynein arms. Among these, we identify C16orf71/Daap1 as a novel axonemal dynein regulator. Daap1 interacts with ODA subunits, localizes specifically to the cytoplasm, is enriched in DynAPs, and is required for the deployment of ODAs to axonemes. Our work reveals a new complexity in the structure and function of a cell-type specific liquid-like organelle that is directly relevant to human genetic disease.

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Proteomics data has been deposited into Massive which in turn was passed to ProteomeXchange. The Massive accession # is: MSV000085075 The ProteomeXchange # is PXD017980 as noted in the paper. The direct link is http://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/cgi/GetDataset?ID=PXD017980The direct link to the data ftp site is ftp://massive.ucsd.edu/MSV000085075/. These data are also provided in Supp. Tables 1-3.

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  1. Chanjae Lee

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
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  2. Rachael M Cox

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
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  3. Ophelia Papoulas

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
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  4. Amjad Horani

    Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, United States
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  5. Kevin Drew

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
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  6. Caitlin C Devitt

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
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  7. Steven L Brody

    Department of Medicine (Pulmonary Division), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, United States
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  8. Edward M Marcotte

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
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  9. John B Wallingford

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
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    wallingford@austin.utexas.edu
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Funding

NICHD (HD085901)

  • John B Wallingford

NHLBI (HL117164)

  • John B Wallingford

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All experiments were performed in strict accordance with the UT IACU protocol # AUP-2018-00225

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  1. Andrew P Carter, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom

Publication history

  1. Received: May 7, 2020
  2. Accepted: December 1, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: December 2, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: January 5, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2020, Lee et al.

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  1. Chanjae Lee
  2. Rachael M Cox
  3. Ophelia Papoulas
  4. Amjad Horani
  5. Kevin Drew
  6. Caitlin C Devitt
  7. Steven L Brody
  8. Edward M Marcotte
  9. John B Wallingford
(2020)
Functional partitioning of a liquid-like organelle during assembly of axonemal dyneins
eLife 9:e58662.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58662

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