Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

The inner junction protein CFAP20 functions in motile and non-motile cilia and is critical for vision

  • Paul W. Chrystal,
  • Nils J. Lambacher,
  • Lance P. Doucette,
  • James Bellingham,
  • Elena R. Schiff,
  • Nicole C. L. Noel,
  • Chunmei Li,
  • Sofia Tsiropoulou,
  • Geoffrey A. Casey,
  • Yi Zhai,
  • Nathan J. Nadolski,
  • Mohammed H. Majumder,
  • Julia Tagoe,
  • Fabiana D’Esposito,
  • Maria Francesca Cordeiro,
  • Susan Downes,
  • Jill Clayton-Smith,
  • Jamie Ellingford,
  • Genomics England Research Consortium,
  • Omar A. Mahroo,
  • Jennifer C. Hocking,
  • Michael E. Cheetham,
  • Andrew R. Webster,
  • Gert Jansen,
  • Oliver E. Blacque,
  • W. Ted Allison,
  • Ping Yee Billie Au,
  • Ian M. MacDonald,
  • Gavin Arno,
  • Michel R. Leroux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33820-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Motile and non-motile cilia have distinct functions and protein complexes associated with them. Here, the authors show the conserved protein CFAP20 is important for both motile and non-motile cilia and is distinct from other ciliopathy-associated domains or macromolecular complexes.