Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

PDE6δ-mediated sorting of INPP5E into the cilium is determined by cargo-carrier affinity

  • Eyad Kalawy Fansa,
  • Stefanie Kristine Kösling,
  • Eldar Zent,
  • Alfred Wittinghofer,
  • Shehab Ismail

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11366
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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PDE6δ regulates the sorting of prenylated cargo proteins. Here Fansa et al. propose that the affinity of the interaction between PDE6δ and its cargo protein determines whether they are released by cytoplasmic or cilia-specific release factors ultimately determining their subcellular localization.