PUBLICATION
Mechanism of positioning the cell nucleus in vertebrate photoreceptors
- Authors
- Tsujikawa, M., Omori, Y., Biyanwila, J., and Malicki, J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-070907-33
- Date
- 2007
- Source
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(37): 14819-14824 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Malicki, Jarema, Omori, Yoshihiro, Tsujikawa, Motokazu
- Keywords
- Bardet–Biedl syndrome, retina, motor complex, neurodegeneration
- MeSH Terms
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- 1-Alkyl-2-acetylglycerophosphocholine Esterase/metabolism
- Animals
- Cell Nucleus/physiology*
- Cell Survival/physiology
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Dyneins/metabolism
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Genetic Linkage
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- Microtubule-Associated Proteins/metabolism
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/chemistry
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/genetics
- Models, Biological
- Mosaicism
- Mutation
- Nuclear Envelope/chemistry
- Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate/cytology
- Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate/physiology*
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Retina/cytology
- Retina/embryology
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 17785424 Full text @ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Citation
Tsujikawa, M., Omori, Y., Biyanwila, J., and Malicki, J. (2007) Mechanism of positioning the cell nucleus in vertebrate photoreceptors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104(37):14819-14824.
Abstract
Organelles are frequently distributed in a nonrandom manner in a cell's cytoplasm. A particular distribution pattern often facilitates a specific function of a cell, whereas its aberrations can lead to cell death. We show that a mutation in the zebrafish mikre oko (mok) locus, which encodes dynactin 1 subunit of the dynactin complex, produces a severe displacement of the photoreceptor cell nucleus toward the synaptic terminus. Interference with the function of other dynein complex constituents, including p50/dynamitin, the Lis1 polypeptide, and the disruption of a nuclear envelope component of the syne gene family in vertebrate photoreceptors also result in the mispositioning of nuclei. Although the overall photoreceptor polarity is not affected, this phenotype is accompanied by a misdistribution of the Bardet-Biedl syndrome 4 polypeptide and a decreased photoreceptor survival. These findings reveal an important mechanism that regulates nuclear position in vertebrate neurons.
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