Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

CFAP45 deficiency causes situs abnormalities and asthenospermia by disrupting an axonemal adenine nucleotide homeostasis module

  • Gerard W. Dougherty,
  • Katsutoshi Mizuno,
  • Tabea Nöthe-Menchen,
  • Yayoi Ikawa,
  • Karsten Boldt,
  • Asaf Ta-Shma,
  • Isabella Aprea,
  • Katsura Minegishi,
  • Yuan-Ping Pang,
  • Petra Pennekamp,
  • Niki T. Loges,
  • Johanna Raidt,
  • Rim Hjeij,
  • Julia Wallmeier,
  • Huda Mussaffi,
  • Zeev Perles,
  • Orly Elpeleg,
  • Franziska Rabert,
  • Hidetaka Shiratori,
  • Stef J. Letteboer,
  • Nicola Horn,
  • Samuel Young,
  • Timo Strünker,
  • Friederike Stumme,
  • Claudius Werner,
  • Heike Olbrich,
  • Katsuyoshi Takaoka,
  • Takahiro Ide,
  • Wang Kyaw Twan,
  • Luisa Biebach,
  • Jörg Große-Onnebrink,
  • Judith A. Klinkenbusch,
  • Kavita Praveen,
  • Diana C. Bracht,
  • Inga M. Höben,
  • Katrin Junger,
  • Jana Gützlaff,
  • Sandra Cindrić,
  • Micha Aviram,
  • Thomas Kaiser,
  • Yasin Memari,
  • Petras P. Dzeja,
  • Bernd Dworniczak,
  • Marius Ueffing,
  • Ronald Roepman,
  • Kerstin Bartscherer,
  • Nicholas Katsanis,
  • Erica E. Davis,
  • Israel Amirav,
  • Hiroshi Hamada,
  • Heymut Omran

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19113-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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The mechanism by which adenosine monophosphate modulates dynein ATPase-mediated ciliary and flagellar beating remains obscure. Here the authors identify an axonemal module including cilia and flagella associated protein 45 that supports adenine nucleotide homeostasis and underlies a human ciliopathy