Defective airway intraflagellar transport underlies a combined motile and primary ciliopathy syndrome caused by IFT74 mutations

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Ciliopathies are inherited disorders caused by defective cilia. Mutations affecting motile cilia usually cause the chronic muco-obstructive sinopulmonary disease primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) and are associated with laterality defects, while a broad spectrum of early developmental as well as degenerative syndromes arise from mutations affecting signalling of primary (non-motile) cilia. Cilia assembly and functioning requires intraflagellar transport (IFT) of cargos assisted by IFT-B and IFT-A adaptor complexes. Within IFT-B, the N-termini of partner proteins IFT74 and IFT81 govern tubulin transport to build the ciliary microtubular cytoskeleton. We detected a homozygous 3-kb intragenic IFT74 deletion removing the exon 2 initiation codon and 40 N-terminal amino acids in two affected siblings. Both had clinical features of PCD with bronchiectasis, but no laterality defects. They also had retinal dysplasia and abnormal bone growth, with a narrowed thorax and short ribs, shortened long bones and digits, and abnormal skull shape. This resembles short-rib thoracic dysplasia, a skeletal ciliopathy previously linked to IFT defects in primary cilia, not motile cilia. Ciliated nasal epithelial cells collected from affected individuals had reduced numbers of shortened motile cilia with disarranged microtubules, some misorientation of the basal feet, and disrupted cilia structural and IFT protein distributions. No full-length IFT74 was expressed, only truncated forms that were consistent with N-terminal deletion and inframe translation from downstream initiation codons. In affinity purification mass spectrometry, exon 2-deleted IFT74 initiated from the nearest inframe downstream methionine 41 still interacts as part of the IFT-B complex, but only with reduced interaction levels and not with all its usual IFT-B partners. We propose that this is a hypomorphic mutation with some residual protein function retained, which gives rise to a primary skeletal ciliopathy combined with defective motile cilia and PCD.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Human molecular genetics - 32(2023), 21 vom: 17. Okt., Seite 3090-3104

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fassad, Mahmoud R [VerfasserIn]
Rumman, Nisreen [VerfasserIn]
Junger, Katrin [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Mitali P [VerfasserIn]
Thompson, James [VerfasserIn]
Goggin, Patricia [VerfasserIn]
Ueffing, Marius [VerfasserIn]
Beyer, Tina [VerfasserIn]
Boldt, Karsten [VerfasserIn]
Lucas, Jane S [VerfasserIn]
Mitchison, Hannah M [VerfasserIn]

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Ciliopathies
Cytoskeletal Proteins
IFT-B
IFT74
IFT74 protein, human
Intraflagellar transport
Journal Article
Primary ciliary dyskinesia
Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 23.10.2023

Date Revised 16.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/hmg/ddad132

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NLM360552676