Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

A mutation in VPS15 (PIK3R4) causes a ciliopathy and affects IFT20 release from the cis-Golgi

  • Corinne Stoetzel,
  • Séverine Bär,
  • Johan-Owen De Craene,
  • Sophie Scheidecker,
  • Christelle Etard,
  • Johana Chicher,
  • Jennifer R. Reck,
  • Isabelle Perrault,
  • Véronique Geoffroy,
  • Kirsley Chennen,
  • Uwe Strähle,
  • Philippe Hammann,
  • Sylvie Friant,
  • Hélène Dollfus

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13586
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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VPS15 is known as a VPS34-associated protein that functions in intracellular trafficking and autophagy. Here the authors identify a role for VPS15 in ciliopathy and ciliary phenotypes, and show that it interacts with GM130 and functions in IFT20-dependent cis-Golgi to cilium trafficking.