Intraflagellar transport in the unicellular green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Intraflagellar transport in the unicellular green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
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单细胞绿藻莱茵衣藻的鞭毛内运输。
DOI:
10.1078/143446103322166491
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发表时间:
2003
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2.5
通讯作者:
Cole,DouglasG
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作者:
Cole,DouglasG
The biflagellate, green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has proven to be the most productive model organism for the study of intraflagellar transport (FT) and will serve as the focus Of this review.| FT js the bidirectional movement of large protein particles along axonemal microtubules of eukaryotic cilia and flagella. The movement of IFT particles was first documented only a decade ago when Chlamydomonas was observed using video-enhanced differential interference contrast (D1C) microscopy (Kozminski et al. 1993). With DIC microscopy, birefringent pulses could be seen moving along the flagellum in both directions. Just ten years later, the field has rapidly evolved and we find that lFT is an ancient and conserved process responsible for the assembly and maintenance of both motile and nonmotile cilia and flagella (reviewed in Pazour and Rosenbaum 2002; Rosenbaum and Witman 2002; Sloboda 2002).Driven by kinesin-Il, anterograde IFT is the move-ment of protein particles from the base of the flagellum out to the distal tip while cytoplasmic dynein 1b is responsible for the retrograde movement of particles back to the cell body (Fig. 1). In Chlamydomonas, the lFT particles are 200–300 nm linear arrays of protein complexes containing at least 16 unique polypeptides that can be isolated as two relatively small complexes, A and B (Cole et al. 1998; Piperno and Mead 1997). Sequence analysis reveals that the particle proteins are rich in protein-protein binding motifs, which could be used in the transport of various cargoes such as axonemal precursors. What follows is a brief description of the lFT motors and particle proteins of Chlamydomonas and a discussion regarding possible biological functions of IFT.