Abstract
Certain ciliary signaling proteins couple with the BBSome, a conserved complex of Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) proteins, to load onto retrograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) trains for their removal out of cilia in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Here, we show that loss of the Arf-like 6 (ARL6) GTPase BBS3 causes the signaling protein phospholipase D (PLD) to accumulate in cilia. Upon targeting to the basal body, BBSomes enter and cycle through cilia via IFT, while BBS3 in a GTP-bound state separates from BBSomes, associates with the membrane, and translocates from the basal body to cilia by diffusion. Upon arriving at the ciliary tip, GTP-bound BBS3 binds and recruits BBSomes to the ciliary membrane for interacting with PLD, thus making the PLD-laden BBSomes available to load onto retrograde IFT trains for ciliary exit. Therefore, BBS3 promotes PLD exit from cilia via the BBSome providing a regulatory mechanism for ciliary signaling protein removal out of cilia.
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International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CRP/CHN15-01)
- Zhen-Chuan Fan
National Natural Science Foundation of China (41876134)
- Jun Sun
National Institutes of Health (GM110413)
- Karl F Lechtreck
National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070698)
- Zhen-Chuan Fan
Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau (19PTSYJC00050)
- Zhen-Chuan Fan
Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau (18JCZDJC34100)
- Zhen-Chuan Fan
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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- Junmin Pan, Tsinghua University, China
Publication history
- Received: May 20, 2020
- Accepted: February 13, 2021
- Accepted Manuscript published: February 15, 2021 (version 1)
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© 2021, Liu et al.
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