title: Architectural insights into a ciliary partition.
abstract: Ciliary compartmentalization plays pivotal roles in ciliogenesis and in various signaling pathways. Here we describe a structure at the ciliary base that appears to have all the features required for compartmentalization and which we thus call the "ciliary partitioning system" (CPS). This complex consists of the terminal plate, which serves as a cytosolic "ciliary pore complex" (CPC), and a membrane region well suited to serve as a diffusion barrier. The CPC is a plate-shaped structure containing nine pores through which the microtubule doublets of the basal body pass. Each pore expands from the doublet B-tubule into an opening well suited for the passage of intraflagellar transport particles. The membrane diffusion barrier encompasses an extended region of detergent-resistant periciliary membrane (ciliary pocket) and a ring complex that connects the CPC to the membrane. Proteomics analysis shows involvement of the ciliary pocket in vesicle trafficking, suggesting that this region plays an active role in membrane transport. The CPC and the ring together form a complete partition defining the ciliary boundary.
authors: Donner Laboratory, Life Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors: Puey
authors: P
authors: Ounjai
authors: Keunhwan D
authors: KD
authors: Kim
authors: Haichuan
authors: H
authors: Liu
authors: Ming
authors: M
authors: Dong
authors: Andrew N
authors: AN
authors: Tauscher
authors: H Ewa
authors: HE
authors: Witkowska
authors: Kenneth H
authors: KH
authors: Downing
mesh_terms: D054468:Axoneme / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D001692:Biological Transport; D002923:Cilia / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008870:Microtubules / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013768:Tetrahymena / Q000502:physiology*
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