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subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Cell biology</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>TTC26/DYF13 is an intraflagellar transport protein required for transport of motility-related proteins into flagella</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes" id="author-7920"><name><surname>Ishikawa</surname><given-names>Hiroaki</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-1"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-5"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-8"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-9"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con1"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" equal-contrib="yes" id="author-7921"><name><surname>Ide</surname><given-names>Takahiro</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="equal-contrib">†</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con4"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" equal-contrib="yes" id="author-7922"><name><surname>Yagi</surname><given-names>Toshiki</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="equal-contrib">†</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con5"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" equal-contrib="yes" id="author-7931"><name><surname>Jiang</surname><given-names>Xue</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="equal-contrib">†</xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-2"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con6"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="author-7924"><name><surname>Hirono</surname><given-names>Masafumi</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-4"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con2"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="author-7925"><name><surname>Sasaki</surname><given-names>Hiroyuki</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="pa1">‡</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con7"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="author-7926"><name><surname>Yanagisawa</surname><given-names>Haruaki</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con8"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="author-7927"><name><surname>Wemmer</surname><given-names>Kimberly A</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-1"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con9"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="author-7189"><name><surname>Stainier</surname><given-names>Didier YR</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-3"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-6"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con10"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="author-7928"><name><surname>Qin</surname><given-names>Hongmin</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-2"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con3"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="author-7929"><name><surname>Kamiya</surname><given-names>Ritsu</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-4"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con11"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes" id="author-3557"><name><surname>Marshall</surname><given-names>Wallace F</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor2">*</xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-1"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-5"/><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-7"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con12"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/></contrib><aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics</institution>, <institution>University of California, San Francisco</institution>, <addr-line><named-content content-type="city">San Francisco</named-content></addr-line>, <country>United States</country></aff><aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science</institution>, <institution>University of Tokyo</institution>, <addr-line><named-content content-type="city">Tokyo</named-content></addr-line>, <country>Japan</country></aff><aff id="aff3"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine</institution>, <institution>University of Tokyo</institution>, <addr-line><named-content content-type="city">Tokyo</named-content></addr-line>, <country>Japan</country></aff><aff id="aff4"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Biology</institution>, <institution>Texas A&M University</institution>, <addr-line><named-content content-type="city">College Station</named-content></addr-line>, <country>United States</country></aff><aff id="aff5"><institution content-type="dept">Division of Fine Morphology, Core Research Facilities</institution>, <institution>The Jikei University School of Medicine</institution>, <addr-line><named-content content-type="city">Tokyo</named-content></addr-line>, <country>Japan</country></aff><aff id="aff6"><institution content-type="dept">The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics</institution>, <institution>Osaka University</institution>, <addr-line><named-content content-type="city">Osaka</named-content></addr-line>, <country>Japan</country></aff><aff id="aff7"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Developmental Genetics</institution>, <institution>Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research</institution>, <addr-line><named-content content-type="city">Bad Nauheim</named-content></addr-line>, <country>Germany</country></aff><aff id="aff8"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Life Science</institution>, <institution>Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University</institution>, <addr-line><named-content content-type="city">Tokyo</named-content></addr-line>, <country>Japan</country></aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="section"><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name><surname>Hyman</surname><given-names>Tony</given-names></name><role>Reviewing editor</role><aff><institution>Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics</institution>, <country>Germany</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group><author-notes><corresp id="cor1"><label>*</label>For correspondence: <email>hiroaki.ishikawa@ucsf.edu</email> (HI);</corresp><corresp id="cor2"><label>*</label>For correspondence: <email>Wallace.Marshall@ucsf.edu</email> (WFM)</corresp><fn fn-type="con" id="equal-contrib"><label>†</label><p>These authors contributed equally to this work</p></fn><fn fn-type="present-address" id="pa1"><label>‡</label><p>Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Community Health Care, Teikyo Heisei University, Chiba, Japan</p></fn></author-notes><pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic"><day>04</day><month>03</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>3</volume><elocation-id>e01566</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>18</day><month>09</month><year>2013</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>17</day><month>01</month><year>2014</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2014, Ishikawa et al</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Ishikawa et al</copyright-holder><license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"><license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="elife01566.pdf"/><related-article ext-link-type="doi" id="ra1" related-article-type="commentary" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.02531"/><abstract><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.001</object-id><p>Cilia/flagella are assembled and maintained by the process of intraflagellar transport (IFT), a highly conserved mechanism involving more than 20 IFT proteins. However, the functions of individual IFT proteins are mostly unclear. To help address this issue, we focused on a putative IFT protein TTC26/DYF13. Using live imaging and biochemical approaches we show that TTC26/DYF13 is an IFT complex B protein in mammalian cells and <italic>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</italic>. Knockdown of TTC26/DYF13 in zebrafish embryos or mutation of TTC26/DYF13 in <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic>, produced short cilia with abnormal motility. Surprisingly, IFT particle assembly and speed were normal in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella, unlike in other IFT complex B mutants. Proteomic and biochemical analyses indicated a particular set of proteins involved in motility was specifically depleted in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant. These results support the concept that different IFT proteins are responsible for different cargo subsets, providing a possible explanation for the complexity of the IFT machinery.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.001">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.001</ext-link></p></abstract><abstract abstract-type="executive-summary"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.002</object-id><title>eLife digest</title><p>Sperm cells have tails called flagella that propel them towards an egg. Other cells have similar, but shorter, structures called cilia that sway back and forth on their surface. In addition to sweeping dust and debris out of our lungs and airways, cilia have a number of other crucial roles during development. This means that faulty cilia can lead to serious birth defects, as well as diseases of the kidneys and respiratory system.</p><p>Cilia and flagella are made from proteins that are assembled in a process called intraflagellar transport or IFT for short. Around 20 proteins are thought to be involved in this process, but the precise role of many of these proteins remains unclear. Now Ishikawa et al. have compared the versions of one of these proteins, called TTC26, that are found in zebrafish, mouse cells, and a single-celled alga called <italic>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</italic> that uses a pair of flagella to move around.</p><p>This protein localizes to the cilia of mice cells and can be seen to move along these cilia in a manner typical of other IFT proteins. Ishikawa et al. then blocked production of TTC26 in zebrafish embryos, which caused these embryos to fail to develop the correct left–right asymmetry, and these fish also had problems with their eyes, ears, and kidneys. Furthermore and although cilia were present in the affected zebrafish, these cilia were shortened and moved abnormally. Ishikawa et al. also found that algae that had a mutation in the gene that codes for TTC26 had short cilia that moved in an abnormal way.</p><p>The findings of Ishikawa et al. suggest that TTC26 may help to transport a specific subset of proteins into the cilia. If other IFT proteins are also shown to carry distinct subsets of cargo, this might explain why as many as 20 different proteins are involved in the IFT process.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.002">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.002</ext-link></p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author-keywords"><title>Author keywords</title><kwd>Chlamydomonas</kwd><kwd>flagella</kwd><kwd>dynein</kwd><kwd>axoneme</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group kwd-group-type="research-organism"><title>Research organism</title><kwd>zebrafish</kwd><kwd>other</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group id="par-1"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>GM097017</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Ishikawa</surname><given-names>Hiroaki</given-names></name><name><surname>Wemmer</surname><given-names>Kimberly A</given-names></name><name><surname>Marshall</surname><given-names>Wallace F</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-2"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution>National Science Foundation</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>MCB-0923835</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Jiang</surname><given-names>Xue</given-names></name><name><surname>Qin</surname><given-names>Hongmin</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-3"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>HL54737</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Stainier</surname><given-names>Didier YR</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-4"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution>Japan Society for Promotion of Science</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>23570189</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Hirono</surname><given-names>Masafumi</given-names></name><name><surname>Kamiya</surname><given-names>Ritsu</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-5"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution>WM Keck Foundation</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Ishikawa</surname><given-names>Hiroaki</given-names></name><name><surname>Marshall</surname><given-names>Wallace F</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-6"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution>Packard Foundation</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Stainier</surname><given-names>Didier YR</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-7"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>GM077004</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Marshall</surname><given-names>Wallace F</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-8"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution>Japan Society for Promotion of Science</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>Postdoctoral Fellowship</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Ishikawa</surname><given-names>Hiroaki</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-9"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution>Herbert W Boyer Postdoctoral Fellowship</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Ishikawa</surname><given-names>Hiroaki</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><funding-statement>The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.</funding-statement></funding-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>elife-xml-version</meta-name><meta-value>2</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta specific-use="meta-only"><meta-name>Author impact statement</meta-name><meta-value>Loss of one protein from the intraflagellar transport complex leads to a defect in import of a specific sub-set of proteins into the flagellum.</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1" sec-type="intro"><title>Introduction</title><p>Cilia and flagella are hair-like microtubule-based organelles, which protrude from the cell surface. Cilia and flagella are basically similar structures and are present in organisms as diverse as single-celled eukaryotes and humans. Cilia have two major physiological functions. One function is producing a driving force for locomotion or making fluid flow (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib49">Ostrowski et al., 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib71">Vincensini et al., 2011</xref>). The other function is sensing extracellular signals and environments, such as hedgehog signaling and fluid flow (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib22">Goetz and Anderson, 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib14">Drummond, 2012</xref>). Because these ciliary functions are important for development and physiology, defects in cilia structure or function cause multiple human diseases (ciliopathies), such as primary ciliary dyskinesia, polycystic kidney disease, Bardet–Biedl syndrome, Meckel–Gruber syndrome, and Joubert syndrome (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib5">Badano et al., 2006</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib69">Tobin and Beales, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib24">Hildebrandt et al., 2011</xref>). Despite the importance of cilia, the mechanisms that assemble such complex structures are not fully understood.</p><p>The assembly and maintenance of cilia are known to be dependent on intraflagellar transport (IFT), an active transport process within cilia mediated by a bi-directional movement of multiprotein complexes, known as IFT particles, along the ciliary axoneme (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib81">Kozminski et al., 1993</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib63">Rosenbaum and Witman, 2002</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib83">Pedersen et al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib84">Scholey, 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib80">Ishikawa and Marshall, 2011</xref>). IFT complex movement is propelled by motor proteins, kinesin-2, and cytoplasmic dynein 2, which move toward the plus and minus ends of microtubules, respectively. Because proteins cannot be synthesized within the cilium, IFT is thought to be needed to carry ciliary components into cilia, by docking the cargo proteins onto the IFT complexes so that the cargo is carried along by the active movement of the complexes (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib57">Piperno and Mead, 1997</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib60">Qin et al., 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib23">Hao et al., 2011</xref>). IFT complexes are composed of more than 20 proteins and motor proteins and can be separated biochemically and functionally into two subcomplexes, IFT complexes A and B (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib11">Cole et al., 1998</xref>). Why is the IFT system so complex? It is known that IFT complex B contributes to anterograde IFT with kinesin, and IFT complex A contributes to retrograde IFT with dynein. However, the functions of individual IFT proteins are mostly unclear. Because depletion of individual IFT complex proteins reduces the assembly of IFT particles and generally inhibits normal ciliogenesis or changes the morphology of the cilium (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib53">Pazour et al., 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib10">Brazelton et al., 2001</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib13">Deane et al., 2001</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib70">Tran et al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib41">Mill et al., 2011</xref>), it has been difficult to determine whether individual IFT proteins have specific functions other than IFT particle assembly. Specific functions of only a few IFT proteins have been identified. For example, IFT25 is important in transporting hedgehog signals, but is not required for cilia assembly (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib32">Keady et al., 2012</xref>). IFT46 is required for transport of outer dynein arms into flagella (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib26">Hou et al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib2">Ahmed et al., 2008</xref>). IFT70/Fleer/DYF1 is involved in polyglutamylation of axonemal tubulin (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib52">Pathak et al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib12">Dave et al., 2009</xref>). IFT172 contributes transition between anterograde and retrograde IFT at the tip of flagella (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib55">Pedersen et al., 2005</xref>). A recent study has demonstrated that the N-terminal parts of IFT74 and IFT81 form a tubulin-binding module (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib8">Bhogaraju et al., 2013</xref>). It is thus emerging that distinct IFT proteins may play distinct roles in transporting different sets of cargos in order to support different cilia functions; however, the cargo transport role of IFT proteins has not been restricted to testing individual candidate cargoes and has not employed systematic proteomic analyses.</p><p>In this study, we focused on TTC26/DYF13, which was identified in our proteomic analysis of mouse primary cilia (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib27">Ishikawa et al., 2012</xref>), as well as in other systematic studies of cilia (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib48">Ostrowski et al., 2002</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib4">Avidor-Reiss et al., 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib36">Li et al., 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Blacque et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib15">Efimenko et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib66">Stolc et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib37">Liu et al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib3">Arnaiz et al., 2009</xref>). TTC26 is a homologue of <italic>Caenorhabditis elegans</italic> DYF-13 (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Blacque et al., 2005</xref>) and <italic>Trypanosoma brucei</italic> PIFTC3 (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib1">Absalon et al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib21">Franklin and Ullu, 2010</xref>). The Dyf (dye-filling defective) phenotype reflects a defect in ciliary assembly in <italic>C. elegans dyf-13</italic> mutants, and previous reports suggested that TTC26/DYF13 is a putative IFT protein (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Blacque et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib1">Absalon et al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib20">Follit et al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib21">Franklin and Ullu, 2010</xref>). TTC26 knockdown has been reported to cause defects in the zebrafish retina and pronephros consistent with a ciliary defect (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib79">Zhang et al., 2012</xref>). In <italic>C. elegans,</italic> DYF-13 might be required to modulate the activation of kinesin-2 by docking this motor onto the IFT complex B (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib50">Ou et al., 2005</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib51">2007</xref>), but the exact function of the protein is still unknown.</p><p>To clarify the function of TTC26, we analyzed TTC26/DYF13 in mammalian cultured cells, zebrafish, and <italic>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</italic>. Our results show that GFP-fused TTC26 moved bi-directionally along the length of cilia in mammalian cells just like other IFT proteins. TTC26/DYF13 was biochemically co-purified with other IFT complex B proteins in mammalian cells and in <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic>, demonstrating that TTC26/DYF13 is indeed an IFT complex B protein. However, unlike other complex B proteins, a deletion mutant of <italic>dyf13</italic> in <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> still has flagella, indicating that TTC26/DYF13 is not required for ciliogenesis per se. However, the flagella are slightly shorter with pronounced motility defects. Similar phenotypes were observed in zebrafish cilia when <italic>ttc26</italic> was depleted. Although IFT particle movement seems normal in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella, specific inner dynein arm components were reduced in flagella of <italic>dyf13</italic> mutants, indicating a specific role for TTC26/DYF13 in transport of a subset of ciliary proteins. Comparative proteomic analysis of the flagellar proteins in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant supports a specific function for TTC26/DYF13 in transporting a subset of cargo proteins involved in the machinery of flagellar motility. Therefore, unlike many other IFT proteins, TTC26/DYF13 is not required for ciliogenesis nor for assembly or movement of the IFT particle per se, but rather plays a specialized role in transporting a specific set of motility-related ciliary proteins into cilia/flagella.</p></sec><sec id="s2" sec-type="results"><title>Results</title><sec id="s2-1"><title>TTC26 is a ciliary protein, which is conserved in ciliated organisms</title><p>In a previous report, we performed proteomic analysis of primary cilia from mouse cells and identified 195 proteins as candidate cilia proteins (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib27">Ishikawa et al., 2012</xref>). We compared identified proteins with other published systematic studies of cilia, such as proteomic, comparative genomic, and promoter analyses of cilia, in various organisms (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib48">Ostrowski et al., 2002</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib4">Avidor-Reiss et al., 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib36">Li et al., 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Blacque et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib15">Efimenko et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib54">Pazour et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib66">Stolc et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib37">Liu et al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib3">Arnaiz et al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib27">Ishikawa et al., 2012</xref>), and found that some proteins in our candidate list had also been identified in other types of systematic studies of cilia. These proteins are presumably of particular importance to the function or assembly of cilia. We focused on one of the identified proteins, TTC26, which is a homologue of <italic>C. elegans</italic> DYF-13 (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Blacque et al., 2005</xref>) and <italic>T. brucei</italic> PIFTC3 (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib1">Absalon et al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib21">Franklin and Ullu, 2010</xref>). TTC26 has tetratricopeptide repeat motifs and is highly conserved not only in vertebrates but also in a variety of ciliated organisms (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1A</xref>). Orthologs were not found in nonciliated organisms. Mouse TTC26 shows 58% amino acid identity and 73% similarity with the <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> homologue. Endogenous mouse TTC26, detected by antibody staining, exclusively localized to primary cilia and basal bodies in IMCD3 cells, which derived from mouse kidney collecting ducts (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1B</xref>). Endogenous TTC26 showed punctate localizations along the length of the primary cilium, resembling the pattern usually seen with IFT proteins.<fig id="fig1" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.003</object-id><label>Figure 1.</label><caption><title>TTC26 is a conserved ciliary protein.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Phylogenetic tree of TTC26 in various ciliated organisms. All protein sequences were obtained from RefSeq (NCBI). The scale bar represents 0.1 substitutions per nucleotide site. (<bold>B</bold>) Immunofluorescence images of primary cilia in IMCD3 cells. The cells were stained with antibodies to acetylated tubulin (green), TTC26 (red) and DAPI (blue). Bar: 5 μm.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.003">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.003</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566f001"/></fig></p></sec><sec id="s2-2"><title>Knockdown of TTC26 in zebrafish shows phenotypes typical of defective cilia</title><p>Because cilia are important in development (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib14">Drummond, 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib46">Oh and Katsanis, 2012</xref>), we investigated TTC26 function during zebrafish embryogenesis. The mRNA of <italic>ttc26</italic> is present in ciliated tissues in zebrafish, such as Kupffer’s vesicle (KV) and pronephric ducts (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://zfin.org">http://zfin.org</ext-link>). To understand the function of TTC26 in vertebrate development, we disrupted the function of the zebrafish <italic>ttc26</italic> gene by injecting an antisense morpholino. We used translational blocking and splice blocking morpholinos for knocking down <italic>ttc26</italic>. Both morpholinos effectively suppressed TTC26 expression (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2s1">Figure 2—figure supplement 1A</xref> ) and caused phenotypes that are typical of defective cilia in zebrafish (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib39">Malicki et al., 2011</xref>), including left–right asymmetry defects with abnormal heart looping (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2A,B</xref>), as well as hydrocephalus, pronephric cysts, abnormal ear otolith formation, and curly body axis (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2s1">Figure 2—figure supplement 1B,C</xref>). In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2A</xref>, the heart-looping is normally oriented to rightward. The appearance of the ventricle on the left of the atrium indicates a left–right reversal of the normal heart-looping pattern. The pronephric cyst and curled body axis phenotypes were previously reported by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib79">Zhang et al. (2012)</xref>. Many of these phenotypes also share similarities with human ciliopathies (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib5">Badano et al., 2006</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib69">Tobin and Beales, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib24">Hildebrandt et al., 2011</xref>). In light of the prior report that <italic>ttc26</italic> morphant zebrafish had photoreceptor defects in the retina (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib79">Zhang et al., 2012</xref>), we checked eye histology by transmission electron microscopy to examine the specialized connecting cilium of the photoreceptor. <italic>ttc26</italic> morpholino-injected animals (morphants) had lost most of the outer segments of their photoreceptors as previously reported by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib79">Zhang et al. (2012)</xref>. However, we found that photoreceptor cells in <italic>ttc26</italic> morphant animals still had a connecting cilium (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2s1">Figure 2—figure supplement 1D,E</xref>), indicating that TTC26 may not be essential for connecting cilia maintenance but might instead affect their function. However, we note it is formally possible that maternally supplied TTC26 protein might support connecting cilium assembly. Altogether, these data show that TTC26 is important for cilia function, not only in the retina but also throughout zebrafish development.<fig-group><fig id="fig2" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.004</object-id><label>Figure 2.</label><caption><title>Knockdown of <italic>ttc26</italic> in zebrafish induces shorter cilia and motility defect.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Representative images of heart-looping orientations of control (Left: normal) and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown (Right: reversed) fish at 2 dpf. <italic>myl7</italic>-GFP transgenic embryos were injected with control or <italic>ttc26</italic> morpholinos. Atrium and ventricle are indicated by the letters a and v. (<bold>B</bold>) Percentages of heart-looping orientation of control (n = 338) and <italic>ttc26</italic> (n = 309) knockdown fish. Around 97% of control morphants showed normal heart-looping orientations (left: blue). In contrast, more than 30% of <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants showed abnormal heart-looping orientations (right: red and center: green). (<bold>C</bold>) Immunofluorescence images of Kupffer’s vesicle in control and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown embryos, which were stained with antibodies to acetylated tubulin at 10-somite stage. Dashed line shows boundary of KV. Bar: 10 μm. (<bold>D</bold>) Length of KV cilia in control (n = 920) and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown fish (n = 506, p<1 × 10<sup>−69</sup>). Blue shows control and red shows <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown embryo. Error bars represent standard deviations in all figures. (<bold>E</bold>) Number of KV cilia in control (blue, n = 18) and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown fish (red, n = 18, p<1 × 10<sup>−4</sup>). (<bold>F</bold>) Immunofluorescence images of pronephric ducts that were stained with antibodies to acetylated tubulin at the 22-somite stage. Bar: 10 μm. (<bold>G</bold>) Length of pronephric duct cilia in control (n = 103) and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown fish (n = 75, p<1 × 10<sup>−8</sup>). (<bold>H</bold>) The traces of fluorescent beads in KV in control and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown embryos at the 8-somite stage showing impaired fluid flow in the morphant. Six representative tracks are shown in different colors in each image. These tracks were traced from the first 50 frames of <xref ref-type="other" rid="video1 video2">Videos 1 and 2</xref>. (<bold>I</bold>) Kymographs of individual KV cilia in control and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown embryos. These kymographs were assembled from <xref ref-type="other" rid="video3 video4">Videos 3 and 4</xref>. Bar: 20 ms. (<bold>J</bold>) Beat frequency of KV cilia in control (blue, n = 38) and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown fish (red, n = 21, p<1 × 10<sup>−8</sup>). Error bars show standard deviations.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.004">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.004</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566f002"/></fig><fig id="fig2s1" position="float" specific-use="child-fig"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.005</object-id><label>Figure 2—figure supplement 1.</label><caption><title><italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown zebrafish shows phenotypes typical of defective cilia.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Expression of TTC26 in control and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown zebrafish. 3 dpf embryos were lysed with 1× SDS sample buffer and detected by Western blotting with TTC26 and actin antibodies. Control, AUG-MO and SP-MO show negative control, translational blocking, and splice blocking <italic>ttc26</italic> morpholinos injected embryos, respectively. Actin antibody was used as a loading control. (<bold>B</bold>) Brightfield images of control and <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown fish at 3 dpf. <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown fish showed phenotypes typical of defective cilia. (<bold>C</bold>) Representative images of anterior region of embryos at 2 dpf. <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown fish showed hydrocephalus (black arrowhead), pronephric cyst (arrow), and abnormal ear otolith formation (white arrowhead). (<bold>D</bold>) Transmission electron micrographs of retina at 4 dpf. <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown fish lost outer segment (OS) of photoreceptor. Bar: 5 μm. (<bold>E</bold>) Transmission electron micrographs of connecting cilium in the retina. <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown fish still have connecting cilia (CC: arrow) despite the absence of outer segments. Bar: 500 nm. CC, connecting cilium; IS, inner segment; M, mitochondria; N, nucleus; OS, outer segment; RPE, retinal pigment epithelium.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.005">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.005</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566fs001"/></fig></fig-group></p></sec><sec id="s2-3"><title>TTC26 morphants have short cilia with motility defects</title><p>The fact that photoreceptor cilia are still present in <italic>ttc26</italic> morphant zebrafish suggests that the effect on cilia may be more subtle than a frank failure of ciliogenesis. To address the role of TTC26 in ciliogenesis, we visualized cilia in whole mount-fixed embryos by immunohistochemistry with acetylated tubulin antibody. We checked cilia length in the KV, which is a ciliated organ in the zebrafish embryo that is essential to mediate left–right asymmetry (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib18">Essner et al., 2005</xref>). Cilia in the KV are well separated from each other and hence particularly easy to measure by light microscopy, compared to either the tiny cilia of the spinal cord or the close-packed cilia of the pronephros. Cilia were present in the KV of the <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants, but the mean length of cilia in the KV at the 10-somite stage was significantly reduced (control 6.4 ± 2.4 μm, <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants 4.4 ± 1.6 μm; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2C,D</xref>). Moreover, the mean number of cilia in the KV was also reduced in <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants (control 51.1 ± 17.3, <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants 28.1 ± 11.1; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2E</xref>). <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants also exhibited shorter cilia in pronephric ducts than control fish at the 22-somite stage (control 3.8 ± 1.2 μm, <italic>ttc26</italic> 2.8 ± 0.9 μm; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2F,G</xref>). These results show that TTC26 is important to assemble full-length cilia in zebrafish.</p><p>The cilia in the KV are motile and generate the directional fluid flow that is crucial to break early bilateral symmetry (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib18">Essner et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib45">Neugebauer et al., 2009</xref>). To assess whether cilia-driven directional fluid flow in the KV was altered by the cilia defects in <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants, we injected fluorescent beads into the lumen of the KV and tracked their movement. In control morphants, fluorescent beads flowed in a persistent counter-clockwise direction (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2H</xref>; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video1">Video 1</xref>). In contrast, this persistent directional flow was abolished in <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2H</xref>; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video2">Video 2</xref>). We also directly visualized individual cilia motility in vivo within the KV by high-speed microscopy using differential interference contrast (DIC) optics. In control morphants, motile cilia displayed a circular beat with a mean frequency of 28.9 ± 6.3 Hz (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2I,J</xref>; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video3">Video 3</xref>). Cilia of <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants also showed a circular beat in most cases, but in contrast to control morphants, beat with a significantly reduced mean frequency of 19.2 ± 4.4 Hz, and sometimes showed unusual beating motion (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2I,J</xref>; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video4">Video 4</xref>). These findings demonstrate that TTC26 is important for cilia motility.<media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video1" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v001.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.006</object-id><label>Video 1.</label><caption><title>Fluorescent videomicroscopy of fluid flow in the KV of control embryos.</title><p>A dorsal view of the KV from a live control embryo at 8–10-somite stage. Fluorescent beads were microinjected into the KV. Images were collected at 5 fps for a total duration of 1 min. Playback is set at 20 fps (4 × speed). Beads show counter-clockwise movements in the KV.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.006">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.006</ext-link></p></caption></media><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video2" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v002.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.007</object-id><label>Video 2.</label><caption><title>Fluorescent videomicroscopy of fluid flow in the KV of <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown embryos.</title><p>A dorsal view of the KV from a live <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown embryo at 8–10-somite stage. Fluorescent beads were microinjected into the KV. Images were collected at 5 fps for a total duration of 1 min. Playback is set at 20 fps (4 × speed). Beads do not show directional movements.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.007">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.007</ext-link></p></caption></media><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video3" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v003.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.008</object-id><label>Video 3.</label><caption><title>High-speed DIC videomicroscopy of KV cilia from control embryos.</title><p>A dorsal view of the KV from a live control embryo at 8–10-somite stage. DIC imaging was performed on an inverted microscope with a high-speed camera. Images were collected at 1000 fps for a total duration of 1 s. Playback is set at 20 fps (1/50 speed). The cilia show a circular motion with a mean frequency of 29.4 ± 7.4 Hz.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.008">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.008</ext-link></p></caption></media><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video4" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v004.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.009</object-id><label>Video 4.</label><caption><title>High-speed DIC videomicroscopy of KV cilia from <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown embryos.</title><p>A dorsal view of the KV from a live <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown embryo at 8–10-somite stage. DIC imaging was performed on an inverted microscope with a high-speed camera. Images were collected at 1000 fps for a total duration of 1 s. Playback is set at 20 fps (1/50 speed). The cilia show a circular motion but with a slower mean frequency of 17.7 ± 3.3 Hz and sometimes showed unusual beating motion.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.009">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.009</ext-link></p></caption></media></p></sec><sec id="s2-4"><title><italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutants show flagella motility defects</title><p>Zebrafish studies showed that TTC26/DYF13 plays important roles in development and physiology consistent with a role in ciliary function and full-length assembly. To further clarify the function of the protein at a cellular or molecular level, we isolated a <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> mutant in the <italic>DYF13</italic> gene (as the TTC26 homologue has been annotated in the <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> genome). Such a mutant provides a key tool to clarify the molecular function of TTC26/DYF13 because it lets us exploit the advantages of <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> as a model organism for biochemical and cellular studies of cilia and flagella. To obtain such a mutant, we checked the previously uncharacterized <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> mutant stocks from our UV-mutagenesis screen conducted for flagellar motility defective mutants and found one mutant with short flagella and a motility defect which carries two mutations in the <italic>DYF13</italic> gene, a one-base substitution (c.57C>T) and a one-base deletion (c.59delC; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3A</xref>). The product of the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant gene is predicted to encode the correct first 19 amino acids and incorrect subsequent 20–56 amino acids (<italic>p.Ala20Glufs</italic>; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3B</xref>) and is thus unlikely to retain any normal biochemical function. In contrast to wild-type <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> cells in which DYF13 protein is clearly visible in puncta distributed along the length of the flagellum (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3C</xref>), <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells lacked detectable DYF13 in their flagella (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3D</xref>) and had significantly shorter flagella (8.1 ± 1.2 μm) than wild-type flagella (11.4 ± 0.9 μm; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3E,F</xref>). In vegetative cells during logarithmic growth, mutant cells swam more slowly (25.1 ± 6.0 μm/s; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3G</xref>, red) than wild-type cells (123.1 ± 13.7 μm/s; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3G</xref>, blue). The flagellar beat frequency (25.9 ± 6.1 Hz; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3H</xref>, red; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video5">Video 5</xref>) was also reduced compared to the wild-type frequency (47.1 ± 4.7 Hz; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3H</xref>, blue; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video6">Video 6</xref>). Expression of HA-tagged DYF13 rescued these phenotypes (data not shown), confirming the mutation in DYF13 was the cause of the phenotypes. Thus, the shorter flagellar length and reduced beating frequency of the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant were consistent with that of zebrafish <italic>ttc26</italic> morphants. Thus, in both zebrafish and <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic>, TTC26/DYF13 is required for assembly of full-length cilia with normal functions.<fig id="fig3" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.010</object-id><label>Figure 3.</label><caption><title><italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutant has short flagella and motility defects.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Sequences of the <italic>DYF13</italic> gene (RefSeq accession: XM_001698717) in wild-type (CC125) and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells. Red underlines show places of mutations. A one-base substitution (c.57C >T) does not change amino acid. A one-base deletion (c.59delC) in the <italic>dyf13</italic> gene induces frame-shift after 20th amino acid (a.a.) reside (<italic>p.Ala20Glufs</italic>). (<bold>B</bold>) Schematic representation of <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> DYF13 (XP_001698769) and its mutant. The black bar indicates correct amino acid sequence and the white bar indicates frame-shift sequence. (<bold>C</bold>) Immunofluorescence images of wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells. The cells were stained with antibodies to acetylated tubulin (red) and DYF13 (green). Bar: 10 μm. (<bold>D</bold>) Isolated flagella fractions from wild-type cc125 and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells were analyzed in Western blots probed with the DYF13 antibody. The DYF13 antibody specifically recognized a ∼56 kDa band. (<bold>E</bold>) DIC images of wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells. Bar: 10 μm. (<bold>F</bold>–<bold>H</bold>) Flagella length (<bold>F</bold>), swim speed (<bold>G</bold>), and beat frequency of flagella (<bold>H</bold>) of wild-type (blue, n = 12) and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells (red, n = 12, p<1 × 10<sup>−6</sup>, 10<sup>−8</sup>, 10<sup>−12</sup>, respectively). Swim speeds and beat frequencies of flagella were measured also in wild-type cells with short flagella, which were adjusted by pH shock and regeneration (light blue, n = 10). Error bars represent standard deviations.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.010">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.010</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566f003"/></fig><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video5" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v005.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.011</object-id><label>Video 5.</label><caption><title>High-speed DIC videomicroscopy of <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cell.</title><p>DIC imaging was performed on an inverted microscope with a high-speed camera. Images were collected at 1000 fps for a total duration of 0.16 s. Playback is set at 20 fps (1/50 speed). The <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cell swims significantly slower than wild-type and flagellar movements are uncoordinated.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.011">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.011</ext-link></p></caption></media><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video6" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v006.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.012</object-id><label>Video 6.</label><caption><title>High-speed DIC videomicroscopy of <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> wild-type cell.</title><p>DIC imaging was performed on an inverted microscope with a high-speed camera. Images were collected at 1000 fps for a total duration of 0.16 s. Playback is set at 20 fps (1/50 speed). The wild-type cell swims smoothly and both flagella beat together in a synchronized breast-stroke motion.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.012">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.012</ext-link></p></caption></media></p><p>One might imagine that the length defect could be the cause of the motility defect if shorter flagella were impaired in their ability to generate a proper flagellar beat, however this does not appear to be the case. We performed identical motility assays on shorter flagella in wild-type cells that are regenerating their flagella after pH shock. Their short flagella showed faster beat frequency (57.6 ± 6.7 Hz; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3H</xref>, light blue) and slower swim speed (54.6 ± 12.5 μm/s; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3G</xref>, light blue) than normal length flagella (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3G,H</xref>, blue). This result is the opposite of what is seen in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant in which beat frequency is slower, not faster, than wild-type, and suggests that the reduced length of <italic>dyf13</italic> flagella is not the direct cause of the reduced beat frequency in the mutant. This result is also consistent with prior studies of short-flagella <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> mutants which are reported to have normal flagella beating (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib28">Jarvik et al., 1984</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib35">Kuchka and Jarvik, 1987</xref>). These results and fact suggest that DYF13 has a role in building a motile flagellum above and beyond its role in flagellar length.</p></sec><sec id="s2-5"><title>TTC26/DYF13 is an IFT complex B protein</title><p>Given our results that TTC26/DYF13 has conserved roles in building full-length cilia and flagella in both zebrafish and <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic>, and given the fact that DYF-13 protein undergoes IFT motion in <italic>C. elegans</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Blacque et al., 2005</xref>), we analyzed the dynamics of TTC26/DYF13 in mammalian cilia to determine if TTC26 undergoes IFT-like movements. We expressed GFP-tagged mouse TTC26 protein in mouse cultured cells and observed the behavior of TTC26-GFP in living cells using total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy. TTC26-GFP showed bi-directional movement in the mammalian cilium (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4A</xref>, top; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video7">Video 7</xref>). The mean anterograde speed of mouse TTC26-GFP was 1.22 ± 0.17 μm/s, and the mean retrograde speed was 0.92 ± 0.24 μm/s (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4B</xref>, blue). These speeds are almost the same as the speeds of known IFT proteins, such as IFT88 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4A</xref>, bottom and 4B, red; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video8">Video 8</xref>), suggesting that TTC26 is likely to move with other IFT proteins.<fig id="fig4" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.013</object-id><label>Figure 4.</label><caption><title>TTC26/DYF13 is an IFT complex B protein.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Kymographs of GFP-tagged mouse TTC26 and IFT88 moving in cilia of mouse IMCD3 cells. These kymographs were assembled from <xref ref-type="other" rid="video7 video8">Videos 7 and 8</xref>. Bars: 10 s (horizontal), 5 μm (vertical). (<bold>B</bold>) The mean IFT speeds of TTC26- and IFT88-GFP. TTC26-GFP (blue, n = 37 cilia, more than 200 particles) and IFT88-GFP (red, n = 43 cilia, more than 200 particles) showed similar speeds in both anterograde and retrograde movements. Error bars represent standard deviations. (<bold>C</bold>) TTC26/DYF13 physically associates with IFT complex B proteins in mouse cilia. Proteins obtained from tandem affinity purification of TTC26 were separated on an acrylamide gel and visualized by silver staining as shown. The identity of each protein bands as determined by mass spectrometry is indicated next to the band, with details given in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Supplementary file 1A</xref>.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.013">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.013</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566f004"/></fig><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video7" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v007.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.014</object-id><label>Video 7.</label><caption><title>Fluorescent videomicroscopy of TTC26-GFP in a cilium of IMCD3 cells.</title><p>Images were collected at 10 fps for a total duration of 1 min. Playback is set at 20 fps (2 × speed). TTC26-GFP moves bi-directionally along the cilium. Orientation of cilia in these movies was determined using the position of the nucleus as a reference for the proximal end of the cilium.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.014">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.014</ext-link></p></caption></media><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video8" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v008.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.015</object-id><label>Video 8.</label><caption><title>Fluorescent videomicroscopy of IFT88-GFP in a cilium of IMCD3 cells.</title><p>Images were collected at 10 fps for a total duration of 1 min. Playback is set at 20 fps (2 × speed). IFT88-GFP moves bi-directionally along the cilium.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.015">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.015</ext-link></p></caption></media></p><p>We next analyzed TTC26 protein interactions by expressing a tandem affinity purification (TAP)-tagged construct of mouse TTC26 in mouse IMCD3 cells. Using affinity purification via the TAP-tag, we pulled out a set of proteins that physically interact with TTC26 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4C</xref>) and then determined their identity by mass spectrometry (‘Materials and methods’). This TAP analysis identified all known IFT complex B proteins, but no IFT complex A proteins nor motor proteins (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4C</xref>; <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Supplementary file 1A</xref>).</p><p>To confirm that TTC26/DYF13 is an IFT complex protein by a different biochemical method, we performed sucrose density gradient analysis of membrane-matrix proteins isolated from <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> flagella (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib11">Cole et al., 1998</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib72">Wang et al., 2009</xref>). The gradient pattern clearly showed that TTC26/DYF13 comigrated with other IFT complex B proteins, such as IFT46 and IFT74, but not IFT complex A protein (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5A</xref>). These results demonstrate that TTC26/DYF13 is an IFT complex B protein, in both vertebrates and <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic>.<fig id="fig5" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.016</object-id><label>Figure 5.</label><caption><title>DYF13 is a part of IFT complex B.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) The sucrose density gradient fractions of wild-type flagella. Flagellar matrix was fractionated through a 10–25% sucrose density gradient. The sucrose density gradient fractions were separated by 10% SDS-PAGE and analyzed by Western blotting. DYF13 had a peak that coincides with other IFT complex B proteins (IFT74 and IFT46). (<bold>B</bold>) Sucrose density gradient fractions of <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella. The peaks of IFT complex B proteins in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella shifted to light density in the gradient (B; IFT81, IFT74, and IFT46), but the peak of IFT complex A protein (IFT139) did not shift. RSP3, a component of the radial spoke and not part of the IFT complex, is used as a gradient marker, which sediments at 20S and 12S in the gradient (indicated by white arrowheads). The peaks of IFT complex A and B proteins are indicated by arrows.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.016">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.016</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566f005"/></fig></p></sec><sec id="s2-6"><title>TTC26/DYF13 does not influence IFT particle assembly or movement</title><p>Having found that TTC26/DYF13 is part of IFT complex B, we next asked whether it is required for the complex to form. We performed sucrose density gradient analysis on flagellar extracts from <italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutant flagella. Although the peak of IFT complex B in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant shifted slightly to a lighter density in the gradient, the IFT complex B proteins still comigrated with each other (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5B</xref>).</p><p>Since our imaging and biochemical results indicated that IFT complex B still forms in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant, we next asked whether DYF13 is required for the movement of IFT particles. We constructed a <italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutant line expressing a GFP-tagged KAP subunit of the IFT kinesin-2, in a <italic>fla3</italic> mutant background that lacks the endogenous KAP protein (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib43">Mueller et al., 2005</xref>). Using this strain, we visualized KAP-GFP signals by TIRF microscopy in living cells (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6A</xref>, top and 6B, blue; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video9">Video 9</xref>). First of all, we found that IFT particles could be clearly seen to move, indicating that DYF13 is not required for assembling IFT particles. The anterograde IFT speed of KAP-GFP in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells was found to be slightly slower than control cells (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6A</xref>, bottom and 6B, red; <xref ref-type="other" rid="video10">Video 10</xref>). However, interpreting this speed reduction is complicated by the fact that IFT speed is known to change as a function of flagellar length (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib16">Engel et al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib7">Besschetnova et al., 2010</xref>), such that shorter flagella exhibit slower IFT speed in <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib16">Engel et al., 2009</xref>). Therefore, to determine if the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutation has a direct effect on IFT speed, we exploited the natural variation in flagellar lengths in a population of cells, and measured the KAP-GFP speed specifically in a subset of control cells that had the same range of flagellar lengths seen in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant. We found that in such cells, which were genetically wild-type but happened to have shorter flagella comparable to the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella (6–8 μm), the KAP-GFP speed was almost the same as in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6B</xref>, light blue). This result is consistent with the idea that the reduction of IFT speed in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant is an indirect consequence of the reduced flagellar length. The frequency of IFT trains as visualized by KAP-GFP did not change between control and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells in the same range of flagella length (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6C</xref>). We also checked the speed and frequency of another IFT complex B component, IFT27-GFP. In <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella, IFT27-GFP showed almost the same speed and frequency as control for both anterograde and retrograde trains in the same range of flagella length (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6D–F</xref>).<fig id="fig6" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.017</object-id><label>Figure 6.</label><caption><title>DYF13 does not influence IFT particle movement.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Kymographs of KAP-GFP in control and dyf13 mutant <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> cells. These kymographs were assembled from <xref ref-type="other" rid="video9 video10">Videos 9 and 10</xref>. Bars: 5 s (horizontal), 5 μm (vertical). (<bold>B</bold>) The mean IFT speeds of KAP-GFP in control and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant. (<bold>C</bold>) The mean frequencies of KAP-GFP in control and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant in the same range of flagella length. The mean speeds and frequencies of KAP-GFP in control (light blue) and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant (red) were almost same in the same range of flagella length (6–8 μm). (<bold>D</bold>) Kymographs of IFT27-GFP in control and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> flagella. These kymographs were assembled from <xref ref-type="other" rid="video11 video12">Videos 11 and 12</xref>. Bars: 5 s (horizontal), 5 μm (vertical). (<bold>E</bold>) The mean IFT speeds of IFT27-GFP in control and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant in the same range of flagella length. (<bold>F</bold>) The mean frequencies of KAP-GFP in control and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant in the same range of flagella length. The mean speeds and frequencies of IFT27-GFP in control (light blue) and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant (red) flagella were almost same in the same range of flagella length in both anterograde and retrograde. Error bars represent standard deviations.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.017">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.017</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566f006"/></fig><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video9" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v009.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.018</object-id><label>Video 9.</label><caption><title>Fluorescent videomicroscopy of KAP-GFP in <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> control cell.</title><p>Images were collected at 20 fps for a total duration of 20 s. Playback is set at 20 fps (real-time speed). KAP-GFP moves toward the tip of flagella in the control <italic>fla3</italic> mutant cell.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.018">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.018</ext-link></p></caption></media><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video10" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v010.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.019</object-id><label>Video 10.</label><caption><title>Fluorescent videomicroscopy of KAP-GFP in <italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutant cell.</title><p>Images were collected at 20 fps for a total duration of 20 s. Playback is set at 20 fps (real-time speed). KAP-GFP moves toward the tip of flagella in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cell.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.019">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.019</ext-link></p></caption></media><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video11" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v011.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.020</object-id><label>Video 11.</label><caption><title>Fluorescent videomicroscopy of IFT27-GFP in <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> control cell.</title><p>Images were collected at 20 fps for a total duration of 25 s. Playback is set at 20 fps (real-time speed). IFT27-GFP moves toward the tip of flagella in the control <italic>pf18</italic> mutant cell.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.020">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.020</ext-link></p></caption></media><media content-type="glencoe play-in-place height-250 width-310" id="video12" mime-subtype="mov" mimetype="video" xlink:href="elife01566v012.mov"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.021</object-id><label>Video 12.</label><caption><title>Fluorescent videomicroscopy of IFT27-GFP in <italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutant cell.</title><p>Images were collected at 20 fps for a total duration of 25 s. Playback is set at 20 fps (real-time speed). IFT27-GFP moves toward the tip of flagella in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cell.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.021">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.021</ext-link></p></caption></media></p><p>We also checked the localization and amount of IFT proteins in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells by immunofluorescence microscopy and Western blotting. The defect of the <italic>dyf13</italic> gene did not change the localization or amount of other IFT proteins (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>).<fig id="fig7" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.022</object-id><label>Figure 7.</label><caption><title>DYF13 does not influence localizations and amounts of other IFT proteins.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Immunofluorescence images of wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells. The cells were stained with antibodies to acetylated tubulin (red) and IFT46, IFT70, and IFT122 (green). Bar: 10 μm. (<bold>B</bold>) Western blotting images of IFT proteins in wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella. Relative amounts of IFT proteins did not change between wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.022">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.022</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566f007"/></fig></p><p>Taken together, these results indicate that DYF13 does not significantly influence the IFT particle assembly or movement.</p></sec><sec id="s2-7"><title>TTC26/DYF13 is important to transport inner dynein components into flagella</title><p>Defects of DYF13 did not change IFT speed or frequency even though DYF13 is an IFT protein. However, <italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutant cells clearly showed the flagella motility defects. These results raised the possibility that the DYF13 protein might be important for transporting specific cargo into the flagellum that is required for normal flagellar motility. Because the motility of flagella is mainly produced by the two types of dynein arms, inner and outer (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib34">King and Kamiya, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib75">Wirschell et al., 2011</xref>), we examined components of axonemal dyneins in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella. The outer dynein components from isolated axonemes of wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant were purified and quantified by SDS-PAGE. Components of outer dynein arms were present at normal levels in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8s1">Figure 8—figure supplement 1A,B</xref>). To analyze the inner dynein arm components, the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant was crossed with the <italic>oda1</italic> mutant, which are missing outer dynein arms (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib30">Kamiya, 1988</xref>). Inner-arm dyneins were purified from the high salt extract of <italic>oda1dyf13</italic> double mutant flagella by ion-exchange column chromatography on a Mono Q column. The elution pattern of the <italic>oda1dyf13</italic> axonemal extract indicated a reduction in the amounts of specific inner-arm dyneins (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8A</xref>). The amounts of inner-arm dynein a, f, and g in <italic>oda1dyf13</italic> double mutant flagella were reduced 50% compared to the <italic>oda1</italic> single mutant (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8B</xref>). This result indicates that DYF13 is important to transport inner dynein components into flagella and suggests that the loss of these dyneins causes flagella motility defects in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant.<fig-group><fig id="fig8" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.023</object-id><label>Figure 8.</label><caption><title><italic>dyf13</italic> mutant reduces the levels of inner dynein arm components in its flagella.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Elution patterns of inner-arm dyneins of <italic>oda1</italic> single and <italic>oda1dyf13</italic> double mutant <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> cells. Inner-arm dyneins were extracted with high salt from outer-armless axonemes of <italic>oda1</italic> and <italic>oda1dyf13</italic> cells and fractionated by ion-exchange chromatography on a Mono Q column. The elution positions of each dyneins are indicated by a–g. (<bold>B</bold>) SDS-PAGE of peak fractions showing the dynein heavy chain bands (circles). Peak fractions were subjected to SDS-PAGE with a 3–5% acrylamide gradient and a 3–8 M urea gradient. Dynein a and f were reduced in <italic>oda1dyf13</italic> compared with <italic>oda1</italic>. (<bold>C</bold>) 2D-DIGE proteomic analysis of wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella. Fluorescence image of the 2D-DIGE analytical gel, using isoelectric focusing (IEF) in the first dimension and SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) in the second dimension. Wild-type is shown in green and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant is shown in red.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.023">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.023</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566f008"/></fig><fig id="fig8s1" position="float" specific-use="child-fig"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.024</object-id><label>Figure 8—figure supplement 1.</label><caption><title><italic>dyf13</italic> mutant does not change the levels of outer dynein arm components in its flagella.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Elution patterns of outer-arm and inner-arm dyneins of wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> cells. The elution positions of each dyneins are indicated by αβ, γ (outer-arm), and a–g (inner-arm). (<bold>B</bold>) SDS-PAGE of peak fractions showing the dynein heavy chain bands (circles). Peak fractions were subjected to SDS-PAGE with a 3–5% acrylamide gradient and a 3–8 M urea gradient. Contaminations of membrane fraction and degradation products are indicated by white arrowhead and asterisk, respectively. Dynein a and f were reduced in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant but αβ, γ were not changed compared with wild-type flagella. FPLC and SDS-PAGE were separately performed in the figure. (<bold>C</bold>) Western blotting images of isolated flagella fractions from wild-type cc125 and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells probed with antibodies centrin and α-tubulin. The ratio column shows the relative intensity ratio of <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant band normalized with wild-type band intensity, showing that the relative amount of centrin was reduced in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella by approximately 50%, comparable to the abundance change measured by 2D-DIGE.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.01566.024">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01566.024</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife01566fs002"/></fig></fig-group></p></sec><sec id="s2-8"><title>Proteomic analysis of <italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutant flagella</title><p>The loss of a specific set of inner dynein arm proteins suggested that TTC26/DYF13 has a role in transporting specific cargo proteins. To identify other potential cargos of DYF13, we performed a comparative proteomic approach using 2D-DIGE (two-dimensional difference in gel electrophoresis). Isolated flagella from wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells were labeled by a different fluorescent dye, respectively, and were simultaneously separated on a single 2D gel, using isoelectric focusing and SDS-PAGE (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8C</xref>). Out of 2324 distinct spots that could be detected on the gels, only 108 showed a significant change in abundance in mutant vs wild-type flagella as judged by an alteration of 1.5× or higher. Of these, we are primarily interested in those showing a reduction in abundance in the mutant compared to wild-type. Two separate experiments, in which flagella were prepared separately from independent biological replicate samples and then analyzed by DIGE, gave a similar pattern of spots for which abundance was reduced by 1.5× or more (64 out of 2324 in the first experiment compared to 106 out of 3358 in the second), with 53 of the spots from the first experiment also showing reduced abundance in the second. Evidently, the vast majority of flagellar proteins do not require TTC26/DYF13 for their import into flagella, suggesting that TTC26/DYF13 only transports a small subset of proteins. To better understand the nature of this subset, we picked a random sample of spots from the set of spots which showed at least a 1.5-fold difference in fluorescent intensities between wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells, and identified the corresponding proteins by mass spectrometry. This was done for 16 spots that showed abundance changes in both DIGE experiments, and corresponding spots from both DIGE gels were extracted and analyzed by mass spectrometry. All 16 spots allowed protein identification from the mass spectra, as listed in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Supplementary file 1B</xref>. The mass spectrometry analysis in the two separate experiments gave identical results for both experiments for each spot. Abundance changes were correlated between the two experiments (r = 0.68; p=0.0013). We confirmed that one of these proteins, centrin, showed a similar reduction in abundance using Western blotting (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8s1">Figure 8—figure supplement 1C</xref>).</p><p>Most of the proteins reduced in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella (shown as a negative value in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Supplementary file 1B</xref>) have been described in the literature as being involved in flagella motility, including FAP59, Enolase, RIB72, PF2, and centrin (see ‘Discussion’ for details). This result indicates that DYF13 is important to transport other components of motility regulatory machineries, such as the dynein regulatory complex and the central pair complex, as well as inner dynein arms. Interestingly, LIS1, a dynein regulatory factor which is associated with flagellar dynein arms (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib56">Pedersen et al., 2007</xref>), accumulated in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella. Because LIS1 accumulates in flagella when flagellar motility is arrested (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib62">Rompolas et al., 2012</xref>), the accumulation may be a secondary effect of flagella motility defects in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s3" sec-type="discussion"><title>Discussion</title><p>In this study, we analyzed TTC26/DYF13 in mammalian cells, zebrafish, and <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> and found that TTC26/DYF13 is an IFT complex B protein but, unlike other IFT B proteins, it is not required for IFT complex B assembly or motion or for ciliogenesis in general, but rather is specialized for transport of a specific set of ciliary cargo proteins related to motility. We suggest calling this protein IFT56 based on its molecular weight (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3D</xref>), following standard nomenclature for IFT proteins (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib11">Cole et al., 1998</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib63">Rosenbaum and Witman, 2002</xref>).</p><sec id="s3-1"><title>IFT56 is not necessary for assembly or movement of IFT particles</title><p>We demonstrated that IFT56/TTC26/DYF13 is an IFT complex B by biochemical and cell biological analyses. IFT56 comigrates with IFT complex B on sucrose gradients (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5A</xref>), makes a complex with other all known IFT complex B proteins (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4C</xref>; <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Supplementary file 1A</xref>), and undergoes IFT at the same speed as other IFT proteins (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4A,B</xref>). Nonetheless, IFT56 does not seem to be necessary for assembly or movement of IFT complexes (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5 fig6 fig7">Figures 5–7</xref>). Previous studies suggested that <italic>C. elegans</italic> DYF-13 is an IFT regulator that modulates either the activity of the OSM-3-kinesin motor or its association with IFT subcomplex B (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib50">Ou et al., 2005</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib51">2007</xref>). We speculate that IFT56 is a peripheral component of IFT complex B rather than a core unit of IFT complex B but is not required for activation of kinesin motors at least in <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic>, based on the normal speed of IFT movement in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant. Because IFT56 is not required for assembly of IFT complexes, we were able to perform further analyses to clarify the specific function of IFT56, which would have been impossible if complex B failed to form in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells.</p></sec><sec id="s3-2"><title>IFT56 is important to assemble full-length cilia/flagella</title><p>We found that IFT56 was important to assemble full-length cilia/flagella. In our study, zebrafish <italic>ttc26</italic> knockdown embryos and <italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutant cells could assemble cilia/flagella but they were shorter than control cilia/flagella (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1 fig2">Figures 1 and 2</xref>). These observations coincide with <italic>C. elegans dyf-13</italic> mutant, which has abnormal cilia with short length (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Blacque et al., 2005</xref>). Most other IFT proteins are necessary to assemble cilia/flagella in the first place. For example, <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> mutants of <italic>ift46</italic>, <italic>ift52,</italic> and <italic>ift88</italic> cannot assemble their flagella (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib53">Pazour et al., 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib10">Brazelton et al., 2001</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib13">Deane et al., 2001</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib26">Hou et al., 2007</xref>) because these IFT proteins are necessary to assemble IFT complex B (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib26">Hou et al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib38">Lucker et al., 2010</xref>). The only exception is IFT25 which is not required for assembly of cilia/flagella (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib32">Keady et al., 2012</xref>). Because IFT25 is not conserved in <italic>C. elegans</italic> and <italic>D. melanogaster</italic>, it might be reasonable that IFT25 is not required for assembly of cilia and IFT complex. In contrast, because IFT56 is conserved in most ciliated organisms (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1A</xref>) like other IFT proteins, IFT56 should have a conserved role in cilia/flagella or IFT. Further analysis is necessary to clarify the role of IFT56/TTC26/DYF13 in determining the length of cilia and flagella.</p></sec><sec id="s3-3"><title>IFT56 is required for transport of a subset of flagella proteins into flagella</title><p>Knockdown of IFT56 in zebrafish embryos and <italic>C. reinhardtii dyf13</italic> mutant cells showed motility defects of cilia/flagella. These motility defects are caused by lack of inner dynein arm components in cilia/flagella. IFT56 is not important to assemble IFT complexes but is important to transport inner dynein arms into cilia/flagella. Analysis of a suppressor mutant of <italic>ift46</italic> has revealed that IFT46 is required for transport of outer dynein arms into flagella (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib26">Hou et al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib2">Ahmed et al., 2008</xref>). Some cilia/flagella proteins are known to be pre-assembled before entering the cilia/flagella (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib60">Qin et al., 2004</xref>), including dynein arms, whose pre-assembly requires HSP90-interacting PIH proteins (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib47">Omran et al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib76">Yamamoto et al., 2010</xref>). In <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic>, three PIH proteins, PF13/KTU, MOT48, and TWI1, were identified (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib76">Yamamoto et al., 2010</xref>). PF13/KTU is required for pre-assembly of outer dynein arms (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib47">Omran et al., 2008</xref>) and MOT48 is important to pre-assemble inner-arm dyneins b, c, d, and e (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib76">Yamamoto et al., 2010</xref>). TWI1 might be important to pre-assemble the other dynein arms, inner dynein species a, f, and g. Because <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells partially lack inner dynein arms a, f, and g from their flagella, we speculate that IFT56 might play a role in recruiting TWI1 with these inner dynein arms to the IFT complex. Knockdown of <italic>twister</italic>, the zebrafish homologue of TWI1, results in pronephric cysts (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib67">Sun et al., 2004</xref>), similar to the phenotypes of IFT56/TTC26/DYF13 knockdown zebrafish (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2s1">Figure 2—figure supplement 1</xref>). We also note the depletion of inner dynein arm components is consistent with the fact that IFT is necessary for incorporation of inner dynein arms but not outer dynein arms in Chlamydomonas (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib57">Piperno and Mead, 1997</xref>). IFT56 is also important for transporting other flagella proteins into flagella (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8C</xref>; <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Supplementary file 1B</xref>) and most of these appear to be related to flagella motility. FAP59 is a homologue of CCDC39 that is required for assembly of inner dynein and dynein regulatory complexes (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib40">Merveille et al., 2011</xref>). Tektin (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib68">Tanaka et al., 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib77">Yanagisawa and Kamiya, 2004</xref>) and centrin (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib58">Piperno et al., 1990</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib59">1992</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib29">Kagami and Kamiya, 1992</xref>) are both involved in inner dynein arm function and assembly, whereas PF2 (also known as DRC4) is a component of the dynein regulatory complex that regulates inner dynein arm activity (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib64">Rupp and Porter, 2003</xref>). Enolase, a component of the glycolytic pathway, is present in motile flagella as part of the CPC1 central pair complex and a mutant with reduced enolase in flagella causes reduced flagella beat frequency (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib42">Mitchell et al., 2005</xref>). Thus, these proteins depleted from flagella in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant are all connected to flagellar motility, rather than flagellar assembly, suggesting a primary role for IFT56/TTC26/DYF13 in carrying motility-related cargoes. Consistent with this picture, IFT56 is not conserved in <italic>Thalassiosira pseudonana</italic> or <italic>Physcomitrella patens</italic>, which lack putative inner dynein and outer dynein homologues, respectively (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib74">Wickstead and Gull, 2011</xref>). A subset of proteins was identified as potential cargos of IFT56 in this study. IFT56 might work as an adaptor between IFT main complex and cargos. However, it is still unknown how IFT56 binds with its cargos. Although tubulin association with the IFT complex is mediated directly by tubulin-binding domains on the IFT proteins IFT74 and IFT81 (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib8">Bhogaraju et al., 2013</xref>), we do not at this point know whether IFT56 contains similarly specific binding sites for all of the cargos whose transport it mediates, or whether it might engage additional adaptors as an intermediate stage. Because cargo proteins in some cases form pre-assembled complexes prior to flagellar transport (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib60">Qin et al., 2004</xref>), it may not be necessary for all IFT56 dependent cargos to bind directly to IFT56, because in principle it could be sufficient for a single component of the complex to bind. Also, because IFT56 was found in nonmotile primary and sensory cilia (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Blacque et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib27">Ishikawa et al., 2012</xref>), which do not have motility complexes, IFT56 likely plays a role in transporting other ciliary components besides motility-related cargoes. For example, since IFT56 is important to assemble full-length cilia in several organisms (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2 fig3">Figure 2D,G and 3F</xref>) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Blacque et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib79">Zhang et al., 2012</xref>), it might carry one or more cargoes involved in ciliary length control. Further work will be necessary to determine how IFT56 affects transport in nonmotile cilia.</p></sec><sec id="s3-4"><title>Conclusions</title><p>In this study, we demonstrated that the mouse cilia proteome candidate TTC26 is an IFT complex B protein with a specific role in transporting a subset of ciliary cargoes related to ciliary motility and for assembling cilia of full length.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s4" sec-type="materials|methods"><title>Materials and methods</title><sec id="s4-1"><title>Antibodies</title><p>Rabbit polyclonal mouse TTC26 and <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> DYF13 antibodies were raised against a bacterially expressed polypeptide corresponding to residues 312–427 of mouse TTC26 and synthesized peptide of N-terminal 15 amino acids of <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> DYF13 (MFYSKSRPQHAARTN; Pocono Rabbit Farm and Laboratory, Canadensis, PA). Commercial antibodies, anti-acetylated tubulin (6-11B-1), α-tubulin (DM1A), and actin (AC-15) were purchased from Sigma (St Louis, MO). Antibodies against <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> proteins IFT22, IFT27, IFT46, IFT70, IFT74/72, IFT81, IFT122, IFT139, IFT140, IFT172, KAP, and D1BLIC were previously reported (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib11">Cole et al., 1998</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib25">Hou et al., 2004</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib26">2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib60">Qin et al., 2004</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib61">2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib43">Mueller et al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib19">Fan et al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib6">Behal et al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib65">Silva et al., 2012</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="s4-2"><title>Plasmids</title><p>cDNAs of TTC26 and IFT88 were amplified from the first strand cDNA of IMCD3 cells by PCR. TTC26 and IFT88 were subcloned into pCAGGS with C-terminal GFP-tag to generate TTC26-GFP and IFT88-GFP, respectively. TTC26 was also subcloned into pgLAP2 (Addgene, Cambridge MA), which has N-terminal FLAG and S-protein tags, to generate TAP-TTC26.</p></sec><sec id="s4-3"><title>Zebrafish morpholino injection</title><p>Wild-type TL zebrafish were maintained and raised as described (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib73">Westerfield, 2000</xref>). Embryonic stages were according to somite number, hours post-fertilization (hpf), or days post-fertilization (dpf; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib73">Westerfield, 2000</xref>). Embryos were injected at the one- to two-cell stage with 2–4 ng of morpholinos. The following previously published translational (5′-CTGGCTTCATCCGAGACAAGAGCAT-3′) and splice blocking (5′-ATATGTTGGTTCTGATGCACCTGTT-3′) morpholinos were injected at the indicated doses (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib79">Zhang et al., 2012</xref>). Negative control morpholino (5′- CCTCTTACCTCAGTTACAATTTATA -3’) was also injected for injection control. 1-phenyl-2-thiourea (Sigma) was used to suppress pigmentation when necessary (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib73">Westerfield, 2000</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="s4-4"><title>Whole-mount immunofluorescence microscopy</title><p>Dechorionated zebrafish embryos at the indicated time points were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA; Electron Microscopy Sciences, Hatfield, PA) overnight at 4°C. Fixed samples were washed with PBS, manually deyolked with forceps, and then fixed with Dent’s fixative (80% methanol: 20% dimethyl sulfoxide) for 4 hr at room temperature. After fixation, embryos were washed three times with PBS and blocked with 10% goat serum in PBS and 0.1% Tween-20 (PBT) overnight at 4°C. Samples were then incubated with anti-acetylated tubulin antibody (1:1000) in blocking solution overnight at 4°C, washed three times in PBT, and incubated with secondary antibodies (1:200, anti-mouse Alexa 594, Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) overnight at 4°C. After extensive PBT washes, embryos were mounted in Vectashield medium (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA). All images and z-stacks were captured using a spectral confocal microscope (Eclipse FN1, Nikon, Tokyo, Japan) with a 60× oil objective.</p></sec><sec id="s4-5"><title>KV fluid flow and cilia motility analyses</title><p>KV fluid flow and cilia motility analyses were performed as described previously (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib78">Yuan et al., 2012</xref>). Fluorescent red beads (0.5 μm; Invitrogen) were microinjected into the KV and fluorescent imaging was performed on an inverted microscope (Axiovert 200M, Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany) with a 40× objective and a CCD camera (Axiocam MRm, Zeiss) at five frames per second (fps). Fluorescent bead tracking was performed in ImageJ (NIH, Bethesda, MD). For imaging KV cilia, differential interference contrast (DIC) imaging was performed on an inverted microscope (Axiovert 200M, Zeiss) with a 63 × water objective and a high-speed camera (Phantom Miro, Vision Research, Wayne, NJ) at 1000 fps. Cilia beating dynamics were further analyzed and quantified by generating kymographs of individual motile cilia from a reconstructed time series in ImageJ (NIH).</p></sec><sec id="s4-6"><title>Electron microscopy</title><p>For transmission electron microscopy of zebrafish retina, 4 dpf zebrafish embryos were doubly fixed with 2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer and 1% osmium tetroxide in 0.1 M phosphate buffer and dehydrated with a graded series of ethanol. Embryos were then embedded in epoxy resin. Ultrathin sections were stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate and observed with a transmission electron microscope (Hitachi H-7500, Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan) at 80KV with a CCD camera (Advantage 12HR, AMT, Woburn, MA).</p></sec><sec id="s4-7"><title>Cell culture and immunofluorescence microscopy</title><p>Mouse IMCD3 cells were maintained in a 1:1 mixture of Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) and Ham’s F12 medium with 10% fetal bovine serum at 37°C in 5% CO<sub>2</sub>. For facilitating ciliogenesis, cells were cultured with serum-free media 1 day before imaging. Antibody staining of IMCD3 cells and imaging were performed as described previously (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib27">Ishikawa et al., 2012</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="s4-8"><title>Live cell imaging and image analysis</title><p>For IFT imaging in mammalian cells, expression plasmids encoding GFP-tagged TTC26 and IFT88 were transfected into IMCD3 cells using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen) and then selected with Geneticin (400 μg/ml; Invitrogen) to establish stable clones. The stable clones were selected according to the intensity and localization of GFP-tagged proteins. TTC26- and IFT88-GFP expressing cells were grown under a transwell cup (Corning, Corning NY). The transwell cups were put on a glass bottom dish and cells were imaged on a TIRF microscope (Eclipse Ti, Nikon) with a 100× oil objective. Cells were imaged at 10 fps with adjusted TIRF. IFT imaging of <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> cells was performed as described previously (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib16">Engel et al., 2009</xref>). Images were collected at 20 fps. Kymographs were generated with ImageJ (NIH).</p></sec><sec id="s4-9"><title>Tandem affinity purification analysis</title><p>Tandem affinity purification (TAP) analysis was modified from Nachury’s method (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib44">Nachury, 2008</xref>). TAP (mock vector as a control) and TAP-tagged TTC26 stably expressing IMCD3 cells were established using the same procedure as was used to generate TTC26-GFP stable cells. TAP-TTC26 expressing cells were suspended with extraction buffer (50 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 150 mM KCl, 1 mM EGTA, 1 mM MgCl2, 10% Glycerol, 1 mM DTT, and 0.1% NP-40) with 10 μg of cytochalasin D (Sigma) and 1 mM PMSF (Sigma) and then incubated on ice for 10 min. After centrifugation at 20000×<italic>g</italic> for 10 min, supernatants were mixed with anti-FLAG M2 affinity gel (Sigma) and incubated 4 hr at 4°C. The affinity gels were washed three times with extraction buffer and S-protein-tagged TTC26 complex was cleaved off FLAG by TEV protease. Eluted S-protein-tagged TTC26 complex was mixed with S-protein agarose (Bethyl laboratories, Montgomery, TX) and incubated overnight at 4°C. TTC26 conjugated S-protein agarose was transferred to a column and TTC26 complex was eluted with 1× SDS sample buffer. The elution was electrophoresed by SDS-PAGE and the gel was stained with Simply Blue stain (Invitrogen). Bands were cut out and analyzed by mass spectrometry at the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomic Resource Core (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA).</p></sec><sec id="s4-10"><title><italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> strains and culture</title><p>The strains used were <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> wild-type 137c, <italic>oda1</italic> (lacking outer-arm dynein; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib30">Kamiya, 1988</xref>), KAP-GFP <italic>fla3</italic>, and IFT27-GFP <italic>pf18</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib16">Engel et al., 2009</xref>). The <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant was obtained by UV-mutagenesis and screening for slow-swimming cells. The original mutant having a slow-swimming and short-flagella phenotype was backcrossed with the wild-type three times. In each cross, the same slow-swimming and short-flagella phenotypes segregated 2:2. The resultant progenies of plus and minus mating types were used for experiments. The mutation was identified by positional cloning using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis of the progenies in 48 tetrads produced by mating with S1-D2 strain (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib31">Kathir et al., 2003</xref>), followed by gene sequencing. In all 48 tetrads the flagellar swimming and length phenotypes were indistinguishable in the mutant products and normal in the other products. Cells were grown in liquid Tris-acetic acid-phosphate (TAP) medium with aeration on a cycle of 12 hr of light and 12 hr of darkness. KAP-GFP <italic>fla3dyf13</italic> double and IFT27-GFP <italic>pf18dyf13</italic> double mutant strains were generated through crosses.</p></sec><sec id="s4-11"><title>Flagella motility and swimming speed analyses in <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic></title><p>Flagellar motility analysis was performed as described previously (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib78">Yuan et al., 2012</xref>). Briefly, for imaging <italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> flagella, DIC imaging was taken on an inverted microscope (Axiovert 200M, Zeiss) with a 40× objective and a high-speed camera (Phantom Miro, Vision Research) at 1000 fps. Quantification of flagellar beat frequency and swim speed were performed in ImageJ (NIH).</p></sec><sec id="s4-12"><title>Flagella isolation and sucrose density gradient analysis</title><p><italic>C. reinhardtii</italic> flagella isolation and sucrose density gradient analysis were following the same methods as described (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib72">Wang et al., 2009</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="s4-13"><title>Dynein composition analysis</title><p>Preparation of high salt extract of axonemes and purification of dyneins were carried out according to the method of Kagami and Kamiya (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib29">1992</xref>). Briefly, axonemes of the <italic>oda1</italic> and <italic>oda1dyf13</italic> mutants were suspended in HMDE solution (30 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, 5 mM MgSO<sub>4</sub>, 1 mM DTT, 1 mM EGTA) containing 0.6 M NaCl and precipitated by centrifugation. The supernatants, referred to as crude dynein extracts, were fractionated into dynein species by high-pressure liquid chromatography on a Mono Q column (Mono Q 5/50 GL, GE Healthcare Bioscience, Tokyo, Japan). The compositions of dynein heavy chains were analyzed by SDS-PAGE with a 4% polyacrylamide and a 6 M urea gel. The gel was stained with silver, and the intensity of dynein bands was analyzed by ImageJ (NIH). We performed this dynein composition analysis twice for <italic>dyf13</italic> vs wild-type and five times for <italic>dyf13oda1</italic> vs <italic>oda1</italic> mutant cells, in all cases obtaining similar results.</p></sec><sec id="s4-14"><title>2D-DIGE analysis</title><p>2D-DIGE analysis was performed twice by Applied Biomics (Hayward, CA) as described previously (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib17">Engel et al., 2012</xref>), using wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> flagella. Isolation of wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> flagella each were done twice, using different cultures grown on separate days, and analyzed entirely independently by DIGE to obtain a measure of variability between samples, as described in the ‘Results’. The spots chosen for protein identification by mass spectrometry reported in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Supplementary file 1B</xref> were ones that showed abundance changes of the same sign in both experiments. To allow comparison of ratios between the two experiments, spot volume data for the two fluorescence channels were first normalized by median normalization (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib33">Keeping and Collins, 2011</xref>) using the median values for the first experiment as a reference.</p></sec></sec></body><back><ack id="ack"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>We thank members of the Marshall laboratory for helpful discussions and careful reading of the manuscript and Kurt Thorn for invaluable microscopy resources and assistance. We also thank Takuya Sakaguchi, Shiaulou Yuan, Zhaoxia Sun, Jeremy Reiter, Narendra Pathak, and Iain Drummond for technical advice on zebrafish experiments and analyses and Ryosuke Yamamoto for a suggestion about dyneins. We are grateful to Douglas Cole, Mary Porter, and George Witman for generously sharing antibodies.</p></ack><sec sec-type="additional-information"><title>Additional information</title><fn-group content-type="competing-interest"><title>Competing interests</title><fn fn-type="conflict" id="conf1"><p>The authors declare that no competing interests exist.</p></fn></fn-group><fn-group content-type="author-contribution"><title>Author contributions</title><fn fn-type="con" id="con1"><p>HI, Conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting or revising the article</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con2"><p>MH, Conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting or revising the article</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con3"><p>HQ, Conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting or revising the article</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con4"><p>TI, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con5"><p>TY, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con6"><p>XJ, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con7"><p>HS, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con8"><p>HY, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con9"><p>KAW, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con10"><p>DYRS, Conception and design, Drafting or revising the article</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con11"><p>RK, Conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting or revising the article</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con12"><p>WFM, Conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting or revising the article</p></fn></fn-group><fn-group content-type="ethics-information"><title>Ethics</title><fn fn-type="other"><p>Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All of the zebrafish procedures were performed according to approved institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocols of the University of California San Francisco, IACUC protocol approval number AN084150-02.</p></fn></fn-group></sec><sec sec-type="supplementary-material"><title>Additional files</title><supplementary-material id="SD1-data"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.025</object-id><label>Supplementary file 1.</label><caption><title>Results of proteomic analyses.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) List of identified IFT proteins from tandem affinity purification of TTC26. (<bold>B</bold>) List of identified proteins from 2D-DIGE proteomic analysis of wild-type and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella. 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pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.026</article-id><title-group><article-title>Decision letter</article-title></title-group><contrib-group content-type="section"><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name><surname>Hyman</surname><given-names>Tony</given-names></name><role>Reviewing editor</role><aff><institution>Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics</institution>, <country>Germany</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group></front-stub><body><boxed-text><p>eLife posts the editorial decision letter and author response on a selection of the published articles (subject to the approval of the authors). An edited version of the letter sent to the authors after peer review is shown, indicating the substantive concerns or comments; minor concerns are not usually shown. Reviewers have the opportunity to discuss the decision before the letter is sent (see <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://elife.elifesciences.org/review-process">review process</ext-link>). Similarly, the author response typically shows only responses to the major concerns raised by the reviewers.</p></boxed-text><p>Thank you for sending your work entitled “TTC26/DYF13 is an intraflagellar transport protein required for transport of motility-related proteins into flagella” for consideration at <italic>eLife</italic>. Your article has been favorably evaluated by a Senior editor, a Reviewing editor, and 3 reviewers.</p><p>The Reviewing editor and the reviewers discussed their comments before we reached this decision, and the Reviewing editor has assembled the following comments to help you prepare a revised submission.</p><p>Three reviewers have seen your paper and all are enthusiastic about your work. Your work provides a nice blend of genetics, imaging and biochemistry, it is of high quality, and interesting. In our discussions, we have come up with two substantive points that we would like you to address before we agree to publication.</p><p>1) The proteomic analysis. The quality of the analysis is essential for the conclusions that you draw from the paper. However as far as we can see, you have only done the analysis once. We feel that such a proteomic experiment should be repeated twice, and preferably three times to average the data. We would like to see the analysis repeated, or provided if you have already performed it.</p><p>2) We were surprised that the frequency of IFT trains was not reported since a possible reduction in the number of trains could explain the shorter length of the flagellum, at least in <italic>Chlamydomonas</italic>. This is also a feasible experiment given the quality of the kymographs shown at <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5A</xref>. Your group has measured IFT frequency using the same reporter in the Engel JCB2009 paper.</p><p>The reviewers were of the opinion that TEM could help interpretation of your data and that if you already have them; this would strengthen the paper. However, we decided that this was not a condition of publication, and leave this up to you.</p></body></sub-article><sub-article article-type="reply" id="SA2"><front-stub><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.01566.027</article-id><title-group><article-title>Author response</article-title></title-group></front-stub><body><p><italic>1) The proteomic analysis. The quality of the analysis is essential for the conclusions that you draw from the paper. However as far as we can see, you have only done the analysis once. We feel that such a proteomic experiment should be repeated twice, and preferably three times to average the data. We would like to see the analysis repeated, or provided if you have already performed it</italic>.</p><p>This is a very interesting suggestion as we know any proteomic analysis will always have a certain rate of errors, both false positives and false negatives, particularly for proteomic analysis of complex cellular mixtures or organelle preparations. Because of this potential variability, the degree to which one should believe any particular protein identified in the proteomic analysis depends on the reproducibility of the experiment. To address this point, we repeated the entire experiment again, including growing new cultures, isolating flagella, and analyzing them by DIGE. The new results are highly similar to the previous results. In the first analysis, we recognized 2,324 spots in the 2D gel and 64 spots of them were significantly reduced in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant flagella. The second analysis recognized 3,358 spots and 106 spots of them were reduced. Of the 64 spots reduced in the first analysis, 53 were also reduced in the second analysis, and the ones that were not were all ones that were very close to the cutoff for being classified as having had their abundance changed. More importantly, out of the spots analyzed by mass spectrometry to determine protein identity, all but one (the metabolic enzyme METM) also showed consistent abundance changes in the second analysis, and so our conclusions about the set of proteins depleted in the <italic>dyf13</italic> mutation are supported by this second analysis. We have added all of this information to the Results section, and we provide the ratio data for both experiments in separate columns in Supplementary file 1B. We have noted in the Results section that the abundance changes for these 16 spots are correlated between the two experiments with a correlation coefficient of 0.68, which is statistically significant (p=0.0013). We conclude that while there are differences in the exact number of spots classified as changing in abundance in the two experiments, these differences do not affect the identity of the spots that we actually analyzed. We have also provided more information about the number of experiments done for the dynein arm analysis, which were two experiments for outer dynein arms and five times for inner dynein arms.</p><p><italic>2) We were surprised that the frequency of IFT trains was not reported since a possible reduction in the number of trains could explain the shorter length of the flagellum, at least in</italic> Chlamydomonas<italic>. This is also a feasible experiment given the quality of the kymographs shown at</italic> <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5"><italic>Figure 5A</italic></xref><italic>. Your group has measured IFT frequency using the same reporter in the Engel JCB2009 paper</italic>.</p><p>This is also an extremely good suggestion. Using our previously acquired kymograph data, we measured the frequency of IFT trains in control and <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells. The frequency of IFT train did not significantly change in <italic>dyf13</italic> mutant cells. This new data is now presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figures 6C and 6F</xref>. We thank the reviewers and editors for insisting on this point, because it supports our conclusion that DYF13 is not necessary for IFT behavior.</p><p><italic>The reviewers were of the opinion that TEM could help interpretation of your data and that if you already have them; this would strengthen the paper. However, we decided that this was not a condition of publication, and leave this up to you</italic>.</p><p>We agree that this could be an interesting avenue for future exploration but feel that it is beyond the scope of the present paper.</p></body></sub-article></article> |