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Pitchfork regulates primary cilia disassembly and left-right asymmetry.
Developmental cell - 20 Jul 2010
Kinzel Doris, Boldt Karsten, Davis Erica E, Burtscher Ingo, Trümbach Dietrich, Diplas Bill, Attié-Bitach Tania, Wurst Wolfgang, Katsanis Nicholas, Ueffing Marius, Lickert Heiko
Abstract excerpt
A variety of developmental disorders have been associated with ciliary defects, yet the controls that govern cilia disassembly are largely unknown. Here we report a mouse embryonic node gene, which we named Pitchfork (Pifo). Pifo associates with ciliary targeting complexes and accumulates at the basal body during cilia disassembly. Haploinsufficiency causes a unique node cilia duplication phenotype, left-right...
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