Cell Reports (Feb 2024)

DPCD is a regulator of R2TP in ciliogenesis initiation through Akt signaling

  • Yu-Qian Mao,
  • Thiago V. Seraphim,
  • Yimei Wan,
  • Ruikai Wu,
  • Etienne Coyaud,
  • Muhammad Bin Munim,
  • Antonio Mollica,
  • Estelle Laurent,
  • Mohan Babu,
  • Vito Mennella,
  • Brian Raught,
  • Walid A. Houry

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 43, no. 2
p. 113713

Abstract

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Summary: R2TP is a chaperone complex consisting of the AAA+ ATPases RUVBL1 and RUVBL2, as well as RPAP3 and PIH1D1 proteins. R2TP is responsible for the assembly of macromolecular complexes mainly acting through different adaptors. Using proximity-labeling mass spectrometry, we identified deleted in primary ciliary dyskinesia (DPCD) as an adaptor of R2TP. Here, we demonstrate that R2TP-DPCD influences ciliogenesis initiation through a unique mechanism by interaction with Akt kinase to regulate its phosphorylation levels rather than its stability. We further show that DPCD is a heart-shaped monomeric protein with two domains. A highly conserved region in the cysteine- and histidine-rich domains-containing proteins and SGT1 (CS) domain of DPCD interacts with the RUVBL2 DII domain with high affinity to form a stable R2TP-DPCD complex both in cellulo and in vitro. Considering that DPCD is one among several CS-domain-containing proteins found to associate with RUVBL1/2, we propose that RUVBL1/2 are CS-domain-binding proteins that regulate complex assembly and downstream signaling.

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