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- Title
Uncovering structural themes across cilia microtubule inner proteins with implications for human cilia function.
- Authors
Andersen, Jens S.; Vijayakumaran, Aaran; Godbehere, Christopher; Lorentzen, Esben; Mennella, Vito; Schou, Kenneth Bødtker
- Abstract
Centrosomes and cilia are microtubule-based superstructures vital for cell division, signaling, and motility. The once thought hollow lumen of their microtubule core structures was recently found to hold a rich meshwork of microtubule inner proteins (MIPs). To address the outstanding question of how distinct MIPs evolved to recognize microtubule inner surfaces, we applied computational sequence analyses, structure predictions, and experimental validation to uncover evolutionarily conserved microtubule- and MIP-binding modules named NWE, SNYG, and ELLEn, and PYG and GFG-repeat by their signature motifs. These modules intermix with MT-binding DM10-modules and Mn-repeats in 24 Chlamydomonas and 33 human proteins. The modules molecular characteristics provided keys to identify elusive cross-species homologs, hitherto unknown human MIP candidates, and functional properties for seven protein subfamilies, including the microtubule seam-binding NWE and ELLEn families. Our work defines structural innovations that underpin centriole and axoneme assembly and demonstrates that MIPs co-evolved with centrosomes and cilia. The inside surface of microtubules contains so-called microtubule inner proteins, but little is known about their identity. Here the authors use bioinformatics to identify structural motifs within this class of proteins and potential new members.
- Subjects
TUBULINS; CILIA &; ciliary motion; MICROTUBULES; CELL division; STRUCTURAL bioinformatics; CENTROSOMES
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-024-46737-3