The tubulin code and its role in controlling microtubule properties and functions

C Janke, MM Magiera - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020‏ - nature.com
Microtubules are core components of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton with essential roles in cell
division, sha**, motility and intracellular transport. Despite their functional heterogeneity …

[HTML][HTML] The X-linked retinopathies: physiological insights, pathogenic mechanisms, phenotypic features and novel therapies

SR De Silva, G Arno, AG Robson, A Fakin… - Progress in retinal and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
X-linked retinopathies represent a significant proportion of monogenic retinal disease. They
include progressive and stationary conditions, with and without syndromic features. Many …

Posttranslational modifications of tubulin and cilia

D Wloga, E Joachimiak, P Louka… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Tubulin undergoes several highly conserved posttranslational modifications (PTMs)
including acetylation, detyrosination, glutamylation, and glycylation. These PTMs …

Cilia-The sensory antennae in the eye

H May-Simera, K Nagel-Wolfrum, U Wolfrum - Progress in retinal and eye …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Cilia are hair-like projections found on almost all cells in the human body. Originally
believed to function merely in motility, the function of solitary non-motile (primary) cilia was …

Spatial and proteomic profiling reveals centrosome‐independent features of centriolar satellites

L Gheiratmand, E Coyaud, GD Gupta… - The EMBO …, 2019‏ - embopress.org
Centriolar satellites are small electron‐dense granules that cluster in the vicinity of
centrosomes. Satellites have been implicated in multiple critical cellular functions including …

Unravelling the genetics of inherited retinal dystrophies: Past, present and future

S Broadgate, J Yu, SM Downes, S Halford - Progress in retinal and eye …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The identification of the genes underlying monogenic diseases has been of interest to
clinicians and scientists for many years. Using inherited retinal dystrophies as an example of …

Genes and mutations causing autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa

SP Daiger, SJ Bowne… - Cold Spring …, 2015‏ - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) has a prevalence of approximately one in 4000; 25%–30% of
these cases are autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP). Like other forms of …

Impaired glutamylation of RPGRORF15 underlies the cone-dominated phenotype associated with truncating distal ORF15 variants

J Cehajic-Kapetanovic… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Pathogenic variants in the Retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator (RPGR) gene lead to a
clinically severe form of X-linked retinal dystrophy. However, it remains unclear why some …

Retinal dystrophies, genomic applications in diagnosis and prospects for therapy

BM Nash, DC Wright, JR Grigg… - Translational …, 2015‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Retinal dystrophies (RDs) are degenerative diseases of the retina which have marked
clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Common presentations among these disorders include …

Loss of RPGR glutamylation underlies the pathogenic mechanism of retinal dystrophy caused by TTLL5 mutations

X Sun, JH Park, J Gumerson, Z Wu, A Swaroop… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
Mutations in the X-linked retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator (RPGR) gene are a major
cause of retinitis pigmentosa, a blinding retinal disease resulting from photoreceptor …