The SYSCILIA gold standard (SCGSv1) of known ciliary components and its applications within a systems biology consortium

TJP Van Dam, G Wheway, GG Slaats… - Cilia, 2013 - Springer
The multinational SYSCILIA consortium aims to gain a mechanistic understanding of the
cilium. We utilize multiple parallel high-throughput (HTP) initiatives to develop predictive …

The electrochemical basis of odor transduction in vertebrate olfactory cilia

SJ Kleene - Chemical senses, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Most vertebrate olfactory receptor neurons share a common G-protein–coupled pathway for
transducing the binding of odorant into depolarization. The depolarization involves 2 …

CCDC39 is required for assembly of inner dynein arms and the dynein regulatory complex and for normal ciliary motility in humans and dogs

AC Merveille, EE Davis, A Becker-Heck, M Legendre… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an inherited disorder characterized by recurrent
infections of the upper and lower respiratory tract, reduced fertility in males and situs …

Biallelic mutations in CFAP43 and CFAP44 cause male infertility with multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella

S Tang, X Wang, W Li, X Yang, Z Li, W Liu, C Li… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Sperm motility is vital to human reproduction. Malformations of sperm flagella can cause
male infertility. Men with multiple morphological abnormalities of the flagella (MMAF) have …

Genome engineering uncovers 54 evolutionarily conserved and testis-enriched genes that are not required for male fertility in mice

H Miyata, JM Castaneda, Y Fujihara… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Gene-expression analysis studies from Schultz et al. estimate that more than 2,300 genes in
the mouse genome are expressed predominantly in the male germ line. As of their 2003 …

ZMYND10 is mutated in primary ciliary dyskinesia and interacts with LRRC6

MA Zariwala, HY Gee, M Kurkowiak… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Defects of motile cilia cause primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), characterized by recurrent
respiratory infections and male infertility. Using whole-exome resequencing and high …

A molecular ruler determines the repeat length in eukaryotic cilia and flagella

T Oda, H Yanagisawa, R Kamiya, M Kikkawa - Science, 2014 - science.org
Existence of cellular structures with specific size raises a fundamental question in biology:
How do cells measure length? One conceptual answer to this question is by a molecular …

Loss-of-function mutations in LRRC6, a gene essential for proper axonemal assembly of inner and outer dynein arms, cause primary ciliary dyskinesia

E Kott, P Duquesnoy, B Copin, M Legendre… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a group of autosomal-recessive disorders resulting from
cilia and sperm-flagella defects, which lead to respiratory infections and male infertility. Most …

ARMC4 mutations cause primary ciliary dyskinesia with randomization of left/right body asymmetry

R Hjeij, A Lindstrand, R Francis, MA Zariwala… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
The motive forces for ciliary movement are generated by large multiprotein complexes
referred to as outer dynein arms (ODAs), which are preassembled in the cytoplasm prior to …

Mutations in ZMYND10, a gene essential for proper axonemal assembly of inner and outer dynein arms in humans and flies, cause primary ciliary dyskinesia

DJ Moore, A Onoufriadis, A Shoemark… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a ciliopathy characterized by airway disease, infertility,
and laterality defects, often caused by dual loss of the inner dynein arms (IDAs) and outer …