TCTEX1D2 mutations underlie Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy with impaired retrograde intraflagellar transport

Miriam Schmidts, Yuqing Hou, Claudio R. Cortés, Dorus A. Mans, Celine Huber, Karsten Boldt, Mitali Patel, Jeroen Van Reeuwijk, Jean Marc Plaza, Sylvia E.C. Van Beersum, Zhi Min Yap, Stef J.F. Letteboer, S. Paige Taylor, Warren Herridge, Colin A. Johnson, Peter J. Scambler, Marius Ueffing, Hulya Kayserili, Deborah Krakow, Stephen M. KingPhilip L. Beales, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Carol Wicking, Valerie Cormier-Daire, Ronald Roepman, Hannah M. Mitchison, George B. Witman, Saeed Al-Turki, Carl Anderson, Richard Anney, Dinu Antony, Jennifer Asimit, Mohammad Ayub, Jeff Barrett, Inês Barroso, Jamie Bentham, Shoumo Bhattacharya, Douglas Blackwood, Martin Bobrow, Elena Bochukova, Patrick Bolton, Chris Boustred, Gerome Breen, Marie Jo Brion, Andrew Brown, Mattia Calissano, Keren Carss, Krishna Chatterjee, Lu Chen, Sebhattin Cirak, Peter Clapham, Gail Clement, Guy Coates, David Collier, Catherine Cosgrove, Tony Cox, Nick Craddock, Lucy Crooks, Sarah Curran, Allan Daly, Petr Danecek, Smith George Davey, Aaron Day-Williams, Ian Day, Richard Durbin, Sarah Edkins, Peter Ellis, David Evans, I. Sadaf Farooqi, Ghazaleh Fatemifar, David Fitzpatrick, Paul Flicek, Jamie Floyd, A. Reghan Foley, Chris Franklin, Marta Futema, Louise Gallagher, Tom Gaunt, Daniel Geschwind, Celia Greenwood, Detelina Grozeva, Xiaosen Guo, Hugh Gurling, Deborah Hart, Audrey Hendricks, Peter Holmans, Jie Huang, Steve E. Humphries, Matt Hurles, Pirro Hysi, David Jackson, Yalda Jamshidi, David Jewell, Joyce Chris, Jane Kaye, Thomas Keane, John Kemp, Karen Kennedy, Alastair Kent, Anja Kolb-Kokocinski, Genevieve Lachance, Cordelia Langford, Irene Lee, Rui Li, Yingrui Li, Liu Ryan, Jouko Lönnqvist, Margarida Lopes, Daniel G. MacArthur, Mangino Massimo, Jonathan Marchini, John Maslen, Shane McCarthy, Peter McGuffin, Andrew McIntosh, Andrew McKechanie, Andrew McQuillin, Yasin Memari, Sarah Metrustry, Josine Min, Alireza Moayyeri, James Morris, Dawn Muddyman, Francesco Muntoni, Kate Northstone, Michael O'Donovan, Stephen O'Rahilly, Alexandros Onoufriadis, Karim Oualkacha, Michael Owen, Aarno Palotie, Kalliope Panoutsopoulou, Victoria Parker, Jeremy Parr, Lavinia Paternoster, Tiina Paunio, Felicity Payne, John Perry, Olli Pietilainen, Vincent Plagnol, Michael A. Quail, Lydia Quaye, Lucy Raymond, Karola Rehnström, J. Brent Richards, Sue Ring, Graham R.S. Ritchie, David B. Savage, Nadia Schoenmakers, Robert K. Semple, Eva Serra, Hashem Shihab, So Youn Shin, David Skuse, Kerrin Small, Carol Smee, Artigas María Soler, Nicole Soranzo, Lorraine Southam, Tim Spector, Beate St Pourcain, David St Clair, Jim Stalker, Gabriela Surdulescu, Jaana Suvisaari, Ioanna Tachmazidou, Jing Tian, Nic Timpson, Martin Tobin, Ana Valdes, Margriet Van Kogelenberg, Parthiban Vijayarangakannan, Louise Wain, Klaudia Walter, Jun Wang, Kirsten Ward, Ellie Wheeler, Ros Whittall, Hywel Williams, Kathy Williamson, Scott G. Wilson, Kim Wong, Tamieka Whyte, Xu Chang Jiang, Eleftheria Zeggini, Feng Zhang, Hou Feng Zheng

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Abstract

The analysis of individuals with ciliary chondrodysplasias can shed light on sensitive mechanisms controlling ciliogenesis and cell signalling that are essential to embryonic development and survival. Here we identify TCTEX1D2 mutations causing Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy with partially penetrant inheritance. Loss of TCTEX1D2 impairs retrograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) in humans and the protist Chlamydomonas, accompanied by destabilization of the retrograde IFT dynein motor. We thus define TCTEX1D2 as an integral component of the evolutionarily conserved retrograde IFT machinery. In complex with several IFT dynein light chains, it is required for correct vertebrate skeletal formation but may be functionally redundant under certain conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7074
JournalNature Communications
Volume6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 5 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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