1. Mutations in the Gene Encoding IFT Dynein Complex Component WDR34 Cause Jeune Asphyxiating Thoracic Dystrophy
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Schmidts, Miriam, Vodopiutz, Julia, Christou-Savina, Sonia, Cortés, Claudio R, McInerney-Leo, Aideen M, Emes, Richard D, Arts, Heleen H, Tüysüz, Beyhan, D’Silva, Jason, Leo, Paul J, Giles, Tom C, Oud, Machteld M, Harris, Jessica A, Koopmans, Marije, Marshall, Mhairi, Elçioglu, Nursel, Kuechler, Alma, Bockenhauer, Detlef, Moore, Anthony T, Wilson, Louise C, Janecke, Andreas R, Hurles, Matthew E, Emmet, Warren, Gardiner, Brooke, Streubel, Berthold, Dopita, Belinda, Zankl, Andreas, Kayserili, Hülya, Scambler, Peter J, Brown, Matthew A, Beales, Philip L, Wicking, Carol, UK10K, Duncan, Emma L, and Mitchison, Hannah M
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Rare Diseases ,Pediatric ,Underpinning research ,1.1 Normal biological development and functioning ,Generic health relevance ,Animals ,Asians ,Axoneme ,Carrier Proteins ,Child ,Chlamydomonas ,Cilia ,Cytoplasmic Dyneins ,Cytoskeleton ,Ellis-Van Creveld Syndrome ,Exome ,Exons ,Humans ,Infant ,Infant ,Newborn ,Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins ,Mutation ,Protein Conformation ,Proteomics ,Whites ,UK10K ,Asian People ,White People ,Biological Sciences ,Medical and Health Sciences ,Genetics & Heredity - Abstract
Bidirectional (anterograde and retrograde) motor-based intraflagellar transport (IFT) governs cargo transport and delivery processes that are essential for primary cilia growth and maintenance and for hedgehog signaling functions. The IFT dynein-2 motor complex that regulates ciliary retrograde protein transport contains a heavy chain dynein ATPase/motor subunit, DYNC2H1, along with other less well functionally defined subunits. Deficiency of IFT proteins, including DYNC2H1, underlies a spectrum of skeletal ciliopathies. Here, by using exome sequencing and a targeted next-generation sequencing panel, we identified a total of 11 mutations in WDR34 in 9 families with the clinical diagnosis of Jeune syndrome (asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy). WDR34 encodes a WD40 repeat-containing protein orthologous to Chlamydomonas FAP133, a dynein intermediate chain associated with the retrograde intraflagellar transport motor. Three-dimensional protein modeling suggests that the identified mutations all affect residues critical for WDR34 protein-protein interactions. We find that WDR34 concentrates around the centrioles and basal bodies in mammalian cells, also showing axonemal staining. WDR34 coimmunoprecipitates with the dynein-1 light chain DYNLL1 in vitro, and mining of proteomics data suggests that WDR34 could represent a previously unrecognized link between the cytoplasmic dynein-1 and IFT dynein-2 motors. Together, these data show that WDR34 is critical for ciliary functions essential to normal development and survival, most probably as a previously unrecognized component of the mammalian dynein-IFT machinery.
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- 2013