Article
Structural and Functional Recovery of Sensory Cilia in C. elegans IFT Mutants upon Aging.
PLoS genetics - 1 Dec 2016
Cornils Astrid, Maurya Ashish K, Tereshko Lauren, Kennedy Julie, Brear Andrea G, Prahlad Veena, Blacque Oliver E, Sengupta Piali
Abstract excerpt
The majority of cilia are formed and maintained by the highly conserved process of intraflagellar transport (IFT). Mutations in IFT genes lead to ciliary structural defects and systemic disorders termed ciliopathies. Here we show that the severely truncated sensory cilia of hypomorphic IFT mutants in C. elegans transiently elongate during a discrete period of adult aging leading to markedly improved sensory...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
- Cilia
- Ciliopathies
- Forkhead Transcription Factors
- HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins
- Humans
- Microtubules
- Molecular Chaperones
