Human Molecular Genetics Advance Access originally published online on October 9, 2008
Human Molecular Genetics 2009 18(1):151-163; doi:10.1093/hmg/ddn325
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The tuberous sclerosis proteins regulate formation of the primary cilium via a rapamycin-insensitive and polycystin 1-independent pathway
1 Department of Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19090, USA 2 Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA 3 Zilfou Therapeutics, Inc, Allentown, PA 18104, USA 4 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, One Blackfan Circle, Karp Building, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Received July 3, 2008; Accepted October 7, 2008
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a tumor suppressor gene syndrome in which severe renal cystic disease can occur. Many renal cystic diseases, including autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), are associated with absence or dysfunction of the primary cilium. We report here that hamartin (TSC1) localizes to the basal body of the primary cilium, and that Tsc1–/– and Tsc2–/– mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) are significantly more likely to contain a primary cilium than wild-type controls. In addition, the cilia of Tsc1–/– and Tsc2–/– MEFs are 17–27% longer than cilia from wild-type MEFs. These data suggest a novel type of ciliary disruption in TSC, associated with enhanced cilia development. The TSC1 and TSC2 proteins function as a heterodimer to inhibit the activity of the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1). The enhanced ciliary formation in the Tsc1–/– and Tsc2–/– MEFs was not abrogated by rapamycin, which indicates a TORC1-independent mechanism. Polycystin 1 (PC1), the product of the PKD1 gene, has been found to interact with TSC2, but Pkd1–/– MEFs did not have enhanced ciliary formation. Furthermore, while activation of mTOR has been observed in renal cysts from ADPKD patients, Pkd1–/– MEFs did not have evidence of constitutive mTOR activation, thereby underscoring the independent functions of the TSC proteins and PC1 in regulation of primary cilia and mTOR. Our data link the TSC proteins with the primary cilium and reveal a novel phenotype of enhanced ciliary formation in a cyst-associated disease.
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