Abstract
The increased availability of mouse models of human genetic ciliary diseases has led to advances in our understanding of the diverse cellular roles played by cilia. The family of so-called “ciliopathies” includes Alström Syndrome, Bardet–Biedl Syndrome, Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, and Polycystic Kidney Disease, among many others. In mouse models of Alström Syndrome and Bardet–Biedl Syndrome, we have shown developmental defects in the mechano-sensory stereociliary bundles on the apical surfaces of “hair” cells in the cochlea, the mammalian hearing organ. Stereocilia are specialized actin-based microvilli, whose characteristic patterning is thought to be dependent on the hair cell’s primary cilium (“kinocilium”). Ciliopathy-associated proteins are localized to the ciliary axoneme and/or the ciliary basal body, or to the bundle itself. Ciliopathy-associated genes functionally interact with genes of the noncanonical Wnt pathway, and so implicate PCP in the control of hair cell development.
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The authors would like to thank Phil Beales (UCL) for Bbs mice, and David Wilson (University of Southampton) for the ALMS1 antibody. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Deafness Research UK supported this work. DJ is a Royal Society University Research Fellow.
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Jagger, D.J., Forge, A. (2012). Assessing PCP in the Cochlea of Mammalian Ciliopathy Models. In: Turksen, K. (eds) Planar Cell Polarity. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 839. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-510-7_19
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