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SUBMITTER: Mali GR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7116892 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mali Girish R GR Ali Ferdos Abid FA Lau Clinton K CK Begum Farida F Boulanger Jérôme J Howe Jonathan D JD Chen Zhuo A ZA Rappsilber Juri J Skehel Mark M Carter Andrew P AP
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20210201 6532
The main force generators in eukaryotic cilia and flagella are axonemal outer dynein arms (ODAs). During ciliogenesis, these ~1.8-megadalton complexes are assembled in the cytoplasm and targeted to cilia by an unknown mechanism. Here, we used the ciliate <i>Tetrahymena</i> to identify two factors (Q22YU3 and Q22MS1) that bind ODAs in the cytoplasm and are required for ODA delivery to cilia. Q22YU3, which we named Shulin, locked the ODA motor domains into a closed conformation and inhibited motor ...[more]