Abstract
The mammalian Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway is required for development and for maintenance of adult stem cells, and overactivation of the pathway can cause tumorigenesis. All responses to Hh family ligands in mammals require the primary cilium, an ancient microtubule-based organelle that extends from the cell surface. Genetic studies in mice and humans have defined specific functions for cilia-associated microtubule motor proteins: they act in the construction and disassembly of the primary cilium, they control cilia length and stability, and some have direct roles in mammalian Hh signal transduction. These studies highlight how integrated genetic and cell biological studies can define the molecular mechanisms that underlie cilia-associated health and disease.
Keywords: Primary cilia, Microtubules, Kinesin, Dynein, Ciliopathies, Hedgehog pathway
Vertebrate Hedgehog signaling is coupled to primary cilia
Cilia and flagella are microtubule-based organelles present on the surface of many eukaryotic cells. While motile cilia are associated with movement and fluid flow, it has been long recognized that sensory signaling by non-motile cilia is required for chemosensation in organisms as diverse as the nematode C. elegans and the alga Chlamydomonas [1]. The primary cilium serves as a specialized subcellular compartment that concentrates membrane-bound receptors and signaling complexes, thereby allowing detection of sensory inputs and ligands from the extracellular environment and relay of that information to the cell interior.
One of the most striking revelations in recent cilia biology is that vertebrate cells require a single non-motile primary cilium to respond to Hedgehog (Hh) family ligands [2,3]. The Hh signaling pathway (and therefore primary cilia) is responsible for many aspects of vertebrate embryonic development and stem cell maintenance, and it is disrupted in a spectrum of human tumors [3–5]. Specific mutations in cilia genes can block, increase, or change the spatial pattern of Hh target gene expression. In humans, perturbation of ciliary proteins causes a broad range of genetic disorders, collectively called ciliopathies [6–8] and many important aspects of ciliopathy phenotypes can be explained by misregulation of Hh signaling.
The construction and maintenance of cilia depends microtubule-based motor proteins to transport cargo into and out of the ciliary compartment. Ciliary trafficking depends on the evolutionarily conserved process of intraflagellar transport (IFT). Large protein complexes organized into IFT trains, large structures that can be visualized in the light microscope, move between the plasma membrane and the axonemal microtubules and carry cargo between the base and the tip of the cilium [9,10]. IFT trains are built from two large protein complexes, the IFT-B complex, which includes 16 subunits and is essential for anterograde IFT, and the IFT-A complex, which includes 6 subunits and is thought to have a particularly important role in retrograde IFT [11]. The anterograde motor Kinesin-II is required to move IFT trains from the cilia base to the tip (Figure 1) (that is, towards the plus-ends of axonemal microtubules) in organisms from Chlamydomonas to humans. Cytoplasmic dynein-2 is the evolutionarily conserved motor that is dedicated to retrograde IFT from the cilia tip to the base (Figure 1). The two motors move on different regions of the microtubule doublets, with anterograde trains moving on the B-tubules and retrograde trains moving on the A-tubules of the axonemal doublets (Stepanek and Pigino, 2016). For recent reviews of IFT, please see references [11,13].
The Hh signaling pathway was discovered and first characterized for its roles in Drosophila segmentation and patterning. However, in contrast to the broad distribution of primary cilia in vertebrates (e.g. references [14], and [15]), primary cilia are found only on sensory neurons in Drosophila and not on the cells that respond to the Hedgehog signals during Drosophila development. Although Hh pathway proteins are present in the cilia of Drosophila olfactory sensory neurons [16], mutations that inactivate IFT complex proteins or the IFT motors do not affect Drosophila Hedgehog signaling, segmentation or patterning [17]. As a result, Drosophila genetic studies have not provided information about how primary cilia are used in Hh signaling. Instead, mouse and human genetic studies have provided the foundation for the current understanding of how primary cilia are exploited in mammalian Hh signaling.
Analysis of mouse cilia mutants has focused on patterning of the neural tube and the limb, which provide reliable in vivo readouts of Hh pathway activity. These studies have revealed that genetic inactivation of Kinesin-II and most of the IFT-B proteins, including IFT172, IFT88, IFT52, IFT57 and IFT46, cause midgestation lethality around embryonic day 10.5 and produce identical phenotypes: absence of cilia, lack of all responses to Hedgehog ligand and loss of Hh-dependent ventral neural cell types [3,18]. Inactivation of mouse IFT-A proteins also causes embryonic lethality and altered Hh signaling, although the phenotypes are more complex than those of IFT-B mutations [3]. Many mutations in both the subunits of the major IFT motors and other cilia-associated motor proteins have been identified in human ciliopathies.
Cell biological experiments have demonstrated that the core components required for vertebrate Hh signal transduction are highly enriched in cilia and that they change their localization within the cilium in response to ligand [3]. The cell biological analysis of trafficking of Hh pathway proteins in wild-type and mutant mice and humans provides the foundation for our current understanding of how transport within the primary cilium promotes normal Hh signaling.
In addition to the anterograde and retrograde motors, a set of other motor proteins has dedicated functions in cilia, in the regulation of the control of cilia initiation, cilia length, cilia stability and cilia disassembly, although the functions of these motors have not been studied extensively. This review summarizes the general roles of cilia motor proteins in cilia function and the vertebrate Hh signaling, with a focus on observations made in mouse and human studies.
Kinesin-2: the primary anterograde motor for cilia assembly in vertebrates is essential for Hh signaling
The evolutionarily conserved kinesin responsible for anterograde trafficking of the IFT trains is the plus end-directed motor kinesin-2, a heterotrimeric complex that belongs to the Kinesin-2 family [19,20] There are two distinct forms of the Kinesin-II motor complexes in vertebrates, KIF3A/KIF3B/KIFAP3 and KIF3A/KIF3C/KIFAP3. KIF3A and KIF3B/C form the motor heads responsible for the ATP-dependent power stroke. KIFAP3 (formerly KAP3) is thought to be a regulatory subunit that is important for motility and/or cargo recognition [21] (Figure 2). Based on the similarity of the mouse phenotypes caused by the loss of KIF3A and KIF3B [22,23,24], it is likely that KIF3A/KIF3B/KIFAP3 is the major form of kinesin-2 in mammals.
Null mutations in mouse Kif3a or Kif3b inactivate the kinesin-2 machinery and cause loss of primary cilia in all embryonic tissues [3,24–30]. Similar phenotypes are seen in most other ciliated species including Chlamydomonas, Tetrahymena, Drosophila, Xenopus, sea urchin and trypanosomes [19,20]. A recently identified zebrafish kif3a mutant allele with 6 base-pair inframe insertion in a highly conserved region within the motor domain causes short cilia and kidney cysts [31], a phenotype consistent with the cilia defect seen in mouse [26,32]. This phenotype is weaker than those seen in mouse Kif3a mutants, presumably because maternal gene product can rescue defects in early patterning of zebrafish embryos. Like the kif3a mutants, zebrafish Ift88 mutants have kidney cysts. For this gene, it has been shown that removal of both maternal and zygotic Ift88 has a stronger phenotype, including loss of normal Hh signaling [33,34].
KIF3A is required for cilia formation and Hh signaling in every cell type tested in mouse. Signaling by Sonic hedgehog (Shh) or Indian hedgehog (Ihh) depends on Kif3a in processes as diverse as bone formation [35,36], tooth development [37], and stem cell proliferation in the embryonic and adult brain [30,38–40]. Similar in vivo analyses have shown that KIF3A and cilia are required for tumorigenesis in Hedgehog-driven tumors such as basal cell carcinoma and medulloblastoma [28,41].
While KIF3A is essential for cilia formation in both mammals and zebrafish, the roles of other Kinesin-II subunits appear to be species-specific. Zebrafish kif3b mutants lack cilia in some tissues but not others: cilia in many tissues are affected, but cone photoreceptor cilia and some kinocilia of the inner ear (specialized primary cilia) appear normal in the mutants. Furthermore, mouse Kif3c null mutants are also viable, fertile and show normal behavior, suggesting that the activity of kinesin-2 machinery mainly depends on KIF3A and KIF3B [42]. [43]. Inactivation of zebrafish kif3c does not have an obvious effect on cilia formation. However, morpholino knockdown of zebrafish kif3c in a kif3b mutant background led to a general loss of cilia, suggesting that Kif3b and Kif3c play functionally redundant roles in zebrafish within the Kinesin-II complex [42].
In addition to its role in building cilia, kinesin-2 could, in principle, also directly transport proteins required for Hh signal transduction. Recent work showed that both KIF3A and KIFAP3 can directly interact with GLI proteins in vitro, and suggested that GLI binding to KIFAP3 restricts the function of GLI activators but does not affect GLI repressors [44]. A direct interaction with KIF3A in cilia would be surprising, as the motor is believed to interact with cargo through IFT protein intermediates [25]. The authors proposed that the interaction of KIFAP3 with GLI proteins is most consistent with a role outside cilia; for example, in the transport of GLI proteins to the nucleus [45]. Although Kif3ap3 mutations (which inactivate both KIFAP3 isoforms) cause embryonic lethality [46], it is not known whether deletion of KIFAP3 affects cilia structure or Hh signaling in the mouse. Analysis of cilia and Hedgehog-dependent patterning defects in Kifap3 mutants should help test whether kinesin-2 can act directly on GLI proteins, independent of the IFT-B complex.
A role for kinesin-2-mediated trafficking of membrane proteins is also controversial. It has been reported that KIF3A acts with β-arrestin1/2 to promote SMO localization to cilia [45], but in mouse embryonic fibroblasts that lack both β-arrestin-1 and -2, cilia localization of SMO appears normal [47]. Although it is possible that KIF3A could directly transport SMO within cilia, a series of elegant pulse-chase experiments and single-molecule imaging studies demonstrated that SMO translocation to the cilia depends on lateral diffusion rather than by kinesin-mediated IFT [48,49]. However, given the presence of a size-dependent physical barrier at the base of cilia [50,51], SMO could require kinesin-2 to get through the diffusion barrier.
Are there additional anterograde motors in vertebrate primary cilia?
In C. elegans, two different kinesins, kinesin-2 and OSM-3, act as anterograde motors for formation of cilia. Cilia on amphid/phasmid channel sensory neurons have two regions, a “middle” segment, which includes the transition zone and the proximal part of the axoneme that is made of doublet microtubules, and a distal segment, which consists of singlet microtubules. OSM-3, a homodimeric kinesin of the Kinesin-2 family, can compensate for the loss of Kinesin-2 activity in these specialized cilia. The function redundancy model suggested that kinesin-2, a slow motor, and OSM-3, a fast motor, may be mechanically coupled and travel as a dual-motor IFT complex in the middle segment of sensory cilia [52]. Recent work using high-resolution fluorescence microscopy in live C. elegans reveals a functional differentiation between the two motors [53]. At single-molecule sensitivity, the live imaging data show that kinesin-2 localizes to the middle segment and is required to import IFT trains and cargo across doublet microtubules (the transition zone and proximal axoneme), whereas OSM-3 resides at the distal segment and acts as a long-haul motor along the singlet microtubule to deliver IFT trains to the cilia tip. The differences in motor distribution and motor activity may account for efficient and dynamic IFT transport observed in the specialized sensory cilia.
The vertebrate homologue of OSM-3 is KIF17. In zebrafish, both kinesin-2 and KIF17 associate with microtubule doublets of photoreceptor connecting cilia (Figure 3). Deletion of zebrafish kif17 does not have an apparent effect in early embryogenesis, but does lead to severe disruption in the morphogenesis of the photoreceptor outer segment [54,55]. Sensory cilia of mammalian olfactory neurons also exhibit a compartmentalized axonemal structure similar to the cilia of nematode amphid/phasmid channel sensory neurons [56]. Fluorescently tagged KIF17 and Kinesin-II are present along the full length of these cilia, and show bidirectional processive movement along the axoneme. Nevertheless, a null mutation of Kif17 in mouse does not affect photoreceptor morphology or function and is dispensable for cilia assembly and Hh signaling during embryonic development [57]. It is possible that in the absence of KIF17 motility, KIF17 associated vesicles are transported via kinesin-II or by diffusion-mediated mechanisms [56].
It is striking that no mutations in KIF3A, KIF3B, KIF3C, KIFAP3 or KIF17 have been identified in human ciliopathy patients, particularly in contrast to the large number of ciliopathy-associated mutations in the subunits of the retrograde motor and in KIF7 (Table 1; see below). This might suggest some functional redundancy between anterograde motors. An alternative possibility is raised by the recent publication of large-scale human exome (protein-coding) sequence, which shows that KIF3A is intolerant to loss-of-function mutations, which suggests that heterozygotes have a disadvantage in survival or reproduction [58].
Table 1.
Gene | Mouse mutations | Human ciliopathy |
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Kif3a | Targeted null [23,24]; ENU-induced null allele [133]. Homozygous mutants of both targeted knockout and ENU induced-null die at midgestation; lethal with loss of cilia and loss of Hh response. | None described. |
Kif3b | Targeted null [22]. Homsozygous mutants die at midgestation; lethal with loss of cilia; loss of Hh response was not examined [134]. | None described. |
Kif3c | Targeted null is viable [43]. No phenotype observed in homozygous null retina photoreceptor cells. | None described. |
Kifap3 | Targeted null associated with midgestation lethality [46]; cilia and Hh defects not described. | None described. |
Dync2h1 | Gene trap and ENU- induced null and hypomorphic alleles [65–67,102,135]; midgestation lethal with short, bloated cilia and loss of Hh signaling response; polydactyly; congenital heart disease. | Short rib polydactyly syndrome and asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy (with or without polydactyly) [69,136–140, 80,141]. |
Dync2li1 | Targeted null [81]; midgestation lethal with short bloated cilia and loss of Hh signaling response | Short rib polydactyly syndrome and skeletal ciliopathy [76,142] |
Wdr34 | No mutants described | Short rib polydactyly syndrome and severe asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia [79,143] |
Wdr60 | No mutants described | Short rib polydactyly and Jeune syndromes [79,80]. |
Tctex1d2 | No mutants described | Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy [144] |
Dynll1 | Gene trap allele [86]; midgestation lethal with short, bloated cilia and loss of Hh signaling response; polydactyly; congenital heart disease; abnormal lung development. | None described. |
Kif7 | Targeted null and ENU-induced alleles [102–104,120,135]; perinatal lethal with mild expansion of ventral neural cell types; polydactyly, skeletal defects; congenital diaphragmatic hernia; primary cilia of variable length and abnormal tip structure. | Joubert and acrocallosal syndrome [100,112–117,119]. Patients exhibit global developmental delay, polydactyly, brain abnormalities (particularly corpus callosum agenesis and classical molar tooth sign), facial dysmorphism, cleft palate; |
Cytoplasmic Dynein-2: the retrograde ciliary motor
Seven of the nine major mammalian dynein complexes [59,60] are localized within motile cilia (or flagella) and are responsible for cilia motility. Two additional dynein complexes are dedicated to cytoplasmic trafficking and intraflagellar transport, respectively: cytoplasmic dynein-1 drives minus-end directed transport in the cytoplasm, whereas cytoplasmic dynein-2, which is conserved from the alga Chlamydomonas to mammals, functions exclusively in cilia and flagella to mediate retrograde IFT [61,62]. The cytoplasmic dynein-2 heavy chain includes six C-terminal AAA+ domains required for ATP hydrolysis and motor activity, a linker domain for microtubule attachment, and an N-terminal region that mediates homodimerization and subsequent interaction with dynein regulatory subunits [63] (Figure 4). The seven accessory subunits are the dynein light chains, intermediate chains, and light intermediate chain [64].
Unlike kinesin-2, cilia can form in the absence of cytoplasmic dynein-2 heavy chain and its regulatory subunits. Mutations in mammalian cytoplasmic dynein-2 heavy chain (DYNC2H1) cause short, bulbous cilia that accumulate IFT particles and Shh components [65–67]. In all mouse Dync2h1 alleles analyzed, Shh signaling is reduced in the neural tube and mutants lack the floor plate and V3 progenitors, which are specified by the highest level of Shh activity [65,67]. The Hh signaling defects in dynein-2 mutants are similar to, but slightly milder than, loss of Kif3a or IFT-B mutants, suggesting that the loss of the retrograde motor disrupts cilia structure almost as completely as the loss of anterograde trafficking. Consistent with defects caused by mutations, chemical antagonists specific to cytoplasmic dyneins (the ciliobrevins) can inhibit dynein activity in vitro and in cells, and reduce both retrograde and trafficking and lead to the accumulation of IFT88 at the tips of cilia [68]. Mutations in human DYNC2H1 are implicated in two specific ciliopathies characterized by a constricted thoracic cage, short ribs, and shortened long bones: Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy (JATD) and short rib polydactyly syndrome (SRPS) (See table 1). Cilia from patients with DYNC2H1 mutations, like the Chlamydomonas and C. elegans mutants, accumulate IFT proteins and Shh components in cilia [69].
Biochemical studies indicate that ATP hydrolysis by the AAA1 domain is essential for movement along microtubules [70–72]. Structural and biochemical analysis of human cytoplasmic dynein-2 has indicated that the AAA2-AAA4 domains form a rigid structure that is required to modulate dynein-microtubule affinity upon ATP hydrolysis, and the AAA5-6 domains stabilize the conformational switch of the motor [72]. These data parallel the phenotypes of mouse Dync2h1 mutations: Dync2h1lln, the allele with the mildest effect on cilia morphology, affects the sixth AAA+ domain, whereas Dync2h1mmi, a more severe allele, affects the first AAA+ domain (Figure 4) [73].
Cytoplasmic dyneins share a set of light chain subunits (DYNLRB1, DYNLRB2, LC8-1 (DYNLL1), LC8-2 (DYNLL2), TCTEX-1 (DYNLT1), and TCTEX-3 (DYNLT3)). In addition, each of the cytoplasmic dynein complexes has a set of subunits required for cargo loading [74]. Cytoplasmic dynein-1 includes the dynactin complex, which enables cytoplasmic dynein-1 to carry vesicular cargo, whereas the cytoplasmic dynein-2 complex includes two intermediate chains (WDR34, WDR60), one light intermediate chain (DYNC2LI1, also called D2LIC) and another light chain (TCTEX1D2) [75]. Mutations in the subunits of cytoplasmic dynein-2 that are not shared with cytoplasmic dynein-1 can cause ciliopathies: human mutations TCTEX1D2, WDR34 and WDR60 are associated with the same types of ciliopathies caused by mutations in the heavy chain, JATD and SRPS [76–80] It is likely that these components are also important for mammalian Hh signaling. Indeed, mutations in human DYNC2LI1 cause SRPS, and fibroblasts derived from patients with missense and nonsense mutations in DYNC2LI1 confirmed that alleles of the gene cause abnormal cilia morphology [76]. Inactivation of mouse Dync2Ii1 and Dynll1 cause midgestation lethality and Hh pathway phenotypes like those seen in Dync2h1 mutants [81, 86] A role for Dynlt1 in ciliary length control has also been described in cell culture and in zebrafish [74,82].
Based on defects in retrograde trafficking in mutants, proteins of the IFT-A complex are postulated to cooperate with cytoplasmic dynein-2 in retrograde transport. However, the phenotypes of mouse embryos that lack cytoplasmic dynein-2 differ from those of IFT-A mutants: dynein mutants show loss of Hh activity, whereas IFT-A mutants show ectopic Hedgehog pathway activation, including dorsal expansion of Shh-dependent ventral progenitor domains [83,84]. The contrasting Hh-dependent phenotypes may reflect differential requirements of cytoplasmic dynein-2 and IFT-A in retrograde IFT. Scanning electron microscopy and immuofluorescent staining analysis show that most IFT-A mutants have bulges and accumulate IFT-B complex at the tip of primary cilia [83–85]. In contrast, mutants associated with partial loss of cytoplasmic dynein-2 function exhibit bulges and abnormal accumulation of IFT particles near the base of cilia [67,85,86], suggesting that, in addition to retrograde transport, cytoplasmic dynein-2 may be required to export cilia cargo through the transition zone diffusion barrier. Analyses in mouse mutants show that in the absence of IFT-A, several membrane proteins, including Smoothened, and soluble cargo such as TULP3 and GPR161, two negative regulators of the Hh pathway, failed to localize to mutant cilia, indicating that IFT-A plays a role in anterograde transport as well as retrograde transport [85,87,88]. In contrast, inactivation of cytoplasmic dynein-2 activity results in abnormal accumulation of both membrane proteins and soluble cargo in the cilia [67,73].
Remarkably, when the activities of both DYNC2H1 and the IFT-B complex (or cytoplasmic dynein-2 and the IFT-A complex) are compromised, cilia structure as well as normal localization of Smoothened and GLI2 are partially rescued [67]. These data suggests that the balance between anterograde and retrograde trafficking is essential for correct localization of Hh pathway components and cilia structure.
The BBSome and IFT25/27: candidate motor adaptors for Hh proteins in primary cilia
Key steps in trafficking through the cilium are cargo loading at the base of the cilium for anterograde trafficking and the release of cargo at the cilia tip, then reloading of appropriate cargo and release at the base of the after retrograde movement. In general, it is believed that cargo associates with IFT particles through relatively low-affinity interactions that allow a wide variety of cargo molecules to be carried and released [13]. However, as discussed above, at least some of the components of the Hedgehog pathway do not traffic with IFT and therefore their movement is not directly regulated by kinesin-2 and cytoplasmic dynein-2. SMO, for example, appears to move into cilia by a lateral diffusion mechanism and by diffusion within cilia (see above). Single particle imaging has also shown that soluble proteins, such as EB1, can also move into and within cilia by diffusion and can accumulate in cilia by capture by specific binding [89].
The BBSome is an octameric complex consisting of highly conserved BBS proteins that are mutated in human Bardet-Biedl syndrome, a ciliopathy associated with cystic kidneys and obesity. The BBSome moves together with the IFT complex and is believed to tether specific cargo to the IFT machinery [3,90–92] and is particularly important in retrograde trafficking [93]. Consistent with a role for the BBSome in retrograde trafficking of Hedgehog pathway proteins, the membrane proteins SMO and PTCH1 accumulated in the cilia of MEFs from Bbs mutants even in the absence of Hh ligand stimulation [92,94].
Two small IFT proteins, IFT25 and IFT27 appear to have a distinctive role in IFT that is related to BBSome activity. Both Ift25 and Ift27 mouse mutants survive to the end of gestation, when they show clear, but mild Hh pathway phenotypes [92,95]. Ift25 and Ift27 mutant cells and embryos do not accumulate the normal amount of GLI2 at cilia tips; mutant cilia also accumulate the membrane proteins PTCH1 and SMO, suggesting a defect in retrograde trafficking. IFT27 is a member of the RAB family of small GTPases and a recent structure of the Chlamydomonas IFT25/27 subcomplex suggests that other IFT proteins may function as a GAP to activate the GTPase function of IFT27 [96]. BBS proteins accumulate in Ift27 mutants, which suggested the model that IFT25 and IFT27 link the BBS complex to the IFT machinery required for retrograde trafficking [97] and that PTCH1 and SMO retrograde trafficking is directly mediated by the BBS complex [92].
Despite the data implicating the BBSome in trafficking of Hh pathway components in mouse embryo fibroblasts, mouse Bbs mutant embryos do not have Hh-related phenotypes, indicating that the BBSome is not essential for mouse Hh signaling. It has been shown, however, that some Bbs mutations can exacerbate Hh pathway phenotypes of weak cilia mutants. For example, while homozygotes for both a weak allele of Ift88 (Ift88orpk) and Bbs7 homozygotes are viable, the double homozygotes die during gestation (~E13.5) with an open cranial neural tube, broad limbs and other Hh-related phenotypes [94]. Similarly, double mutants that lack both the transition zone protein Tectonic1 (TCTN1) and BBS1 show more extreme polydactyly and neural tube closure defects, and cilia fibroblasts from the double mutants have more pronounced defects in ciliary trafficking than Tctn1 single mutants [98]. Thus other factors appear to act in parallel with the BBSome to link Hh pathway proteins and the IFT machinery. Alternatively, the BBSome may act as a back-up for a diffusion-and-capture mechanism [89] to concentrate Hh pathway proteins in cilia.
Cilia-associated kinesins at the tip and the base of cilia
In addition to direct roles in transport within the cilium, other kinesins play specific roles in shaping microtubules at the tip and the base of the cilium through modulation of tubulin dynamics. The GLI transcription factors and their repressor SUFU are highly enriched at cilia tips. The cilia tip compartment is also crucial in trafficking, as anterograde cargo is released at the tip, retrograde is loaded and IFT complexes change their structure to accommodate the switch from the use of the kinesin-2 motor to the cytoplasmic dynein-2 motor. The base of the cilium is the site where cilium assembly is controlled and where the cargo that enters the cilium is determined. Both of these compartments are regulated by dedicated kinesin motors.
KIF7: a regulator of the cilia tip compartment that links Hh signaling to the primary cilium
KIF7, a member of the Kinesin-4 family, is the only evolutionarily conserved component of the core Hh signal transduction pathway that is required for the structure of primary cilia [99] (Figure 3a). The primary cilia of cultured fibroblasts carrying either mouse and human Kif7 mutations are longer and less stable than wild type control, which demonstrates that KIF7 plays a role in regulating cilia structure [99,100].
KIF7 localizes to the tip of the cilium throughout ciliogenesis and accumulates further at cilia tips in response to Hh activation. Mammalian KIF7 is the homolog of Drosophila Cos2, and both are required to relay signals from the transmembrane protein SMO to the Ci/GLI transcription factors [25,101]. Genetic inactivation of mammalian KIF7 causes developmental defects associated with mild ectopic activation of Hh signaling, including dorsal expansion of ventral cell types in the neural tube, preaxial polydactyly and skeletal malformations [102–104] (Table 1). Zebrafish Kif7 also localizes to primary cilia and regulates Hh signaling in the mesoderm [105,106]. Enrichment of KIF7 at cilia tips in response to Hh pathway activation may depend on PPFIA1, a subunit of the serine/threonine PP2A phosphatase complex, which resides at the base of primary cilia in MEFs [107].
Although the KIF7 motor domain has a crystal structure superimposable on that of conventional kinesin heavy chain and has the sequence hallmarks of a plus-end directed microtubule motor [108,109], the overall rates of anterograde and retrograde transport do not change in the absence of KIF7 [99]. In addition, KIF7 does not act as an anterograde motor for Hh pathway proteins, as SMO and GLI proteins localize to cilia in the absence of KIF7 [99]. Instead, single-molecule imaging showed that motor domain of KIF7 binds preferentially and autonomously to the plus-ends of growing microtubules, where it regulates the dynamics of microtubule growth at plus-ends. At the plus-ends of microtubules, purified KIF7 motor both decreases the rate of microtubule polymerization and induces microtubule catastrophe, causing an overall reduction in the length of microtubules. These activities of the KIF7 motor on microtubule dynamics can account for the long cilia phenotype seen in Kif7 mutants [99,100].
Although cilia localization of SMO and GLI proteins does not depend on KIF7, KIF7 has been shown to bind GLI proteins and SUFU [104,110], just as Drosophila Cos2 binds to the homologous Hh pathway proteins Ci and Sufu [111]. In the absence of KIF7, the GLI-SUFU complex, assessed by co-immunoprecipitation, fails to dissociate in response to Hh ligand, indicating that KIF7 helps promote GLI-SUFU dissociation and subsequent GLI activation [110]. Further structure-function analysis and in vitro reconstitution experiments will be required to define whether dissociation of the GLI-SUFU complex is directly regulated through KIF7 motor activity and require the presence of microtubule.
Mutations in human KIF7 have been reported in several classes of severe ciliopathies associated with perinatal lethality, including fetal hydrolethalus, acrocallosal syndrome and Joubert syndrome (Figure 5) (Table 1) [112–119]. Affected individuals show a spectrum of developmental defects including brain abnormalities, skeletal malformations and craniofacial dysmorphism, consistent with a role of KIF7 in the human Hh pathway. In addition, KIF7 has also been implicated in retinoic acid signaling, congenital diaphragmatic hernia and cell proliferation in the respiratory airway [120,121]. It will be interesting to determine whether the role of KIF7 in those contexts is mediated through Hh signaling or through other activities of cilia.
A close homologue of KIF7, KIF27, is also associated with cilia but is not required for formation of primary cilia or the activity of the mammalian Hh pathway (Figure 3). Instead, KIF27 is important for the movement of motile cilia [122–124]. The ancestral planarian KIF7/KIF27 is required for cilia formation and motility [125]. It will be interesting to compare the interactions of KIF7 and KIF27 with microtubules and determine whether they both regulate microtubule dynamics by interactions with microtubule plus-ends within the cilia or whether the two proteins have distinct sets of motor activities on different types of axonemal microtubules.
Microtubule-depolymerizing kinesins at the base and tips of cilia
Microtubule-depolymerizing kinesins, M-kinesins without processive motility, have an ancient function in the regulation of the length of ciliary and flagellar axonemal microtubules, as protozoan and Chlamydomonas Kinesin-13 proteins regulate the length and motility of flagella [126]. However it is not yet clear whether depolymerizing kinesins play a role in cilia length control in animals. Human KIF24, a Kinesin-13 family member, preferentially localizes to the mother centriole in cultured cells. KIF24 has a mild microtubule destabilizing activity in vitro, much less than the mammalian MCAK KIF2C, a well characterized microtubule depolymerizing protein [127]. KIF24 recruits CP110, which caps the distal end of centrioles to prevent inappropriate ciliogenesis in cycling cultured cells (Figure 3). Thus KIF24 appears to act at the base rather than the tip of the cilium: it acts at the centriole to negatively regulate cilia initiation in concert with CP110, but is not required for either centriole or cilia length. The in vivo function of KIF24 has not been tested, while CP110 was recently shown to control centriole maturation and cilia formation in vivo [128].
Mammalian KIF2A, another member of the M-kinesin Kinesin-13 family, is also localized to the centrosome and can promote cilia disassembly from the cilia base in cell culture [129]. The microtubule-depolymerization activity of KIF2A depends on specific activation by Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) and is coupled to cell proliferation. Knockdown of KIF2A prevents cilia disassembly when quiescent cells re-enter the proliferative phase. Given that cilia disassembly presumably occurs from the plus-ends of microtubules at the cilia tip, it is unclear which cellular microtubules are the substrates of cilia-associated KIF2A. A role of the PLK1-KIF2A pathway in ciliogenesis has also been implicated in premature chromatid separation syndrome, which shares some features with human ciliopathies [129]. A missense mutation of KIF2A has been identified in a human patient with malformation of cortical development and microcephaly [130]. Given that the basal body may act as a trafficking hub for motor proteins, it is interesting to note that centrosome dysfunction is associated with microcephaly [131]. Cilia-associated vertebrate Kinesin-13 members may act on cytoplasmic microtubules surrounding the centrosomes or on centrosomal microtubules to control ciliogenesis and disassembly during the cell cycle.
KIF19A, a Kinesin-8 family member with a motor domain at the N-terminus, limits the length of motile cilia in vivo [132]. KIF19A uses its plus-end directed motility to reach the cilia tip, where it then depolymerizes microtubules from the plus-ends. Mouse mutants that lack Kif19A have longer motile cilia that are incapable of generating efficient fluid flow and exhibit motile cilia-associated defects, including hydrocephaly and female infertility. Kif19A mutants show normal embryonic development, suggesting that KIF19A activity is specific to motile cilia but not primary cilia and therefore does not play a role in mammalian Hh signaling [132].
Concluding remarks
The number and diversity of cilia-associated microtubule motors are remarkable. Each type of motor is responsible for distinct aspects of cilia structure and function. The IFT dynein complex is dedicated to retrograde transport, whereas kinesins play roles in anterograde transport, axonemal length control and the organization of centriolar and centrosomal microtubules. Given that mutations in Kinesin-II and IFT-dynein cause distinct ciliary structural defects but have similar effects on Hh signal transduction, it is most likely that those motor proteins act by regulating cilia structure and thereby regulating the proper localization and enzymatic activities of the Hh signaling pathway. Future investigation needs to define the mechanistic details of motor-mediated cilia trafficking and the aspects of cilia structure that are essential for Hh signaling (see Outstanding Questions).
Outstanding questions.
Do microtubules and motor protein-mediated trafficking only play a structure role in formation of the cilia, or do they actively regulate the location, composition and activity of the Hh complex?
What is the nature of Hh complex that accumulates at the tip of the cilium and how does IFT affect the dynamics of Hh complex accumulation?
Does Hh ligand or pathway activation regulate motor speed, and how do Hh proteins accumulate at the cilia tip when the pathway is activated?
How much of the Kif7 phenotype embryonic phenotype is due to cilia structure and how much to GLI/SUFU interactions?
What determines kinesin and dynein specificity to different types of cilia, and what mechanisms regulate motor proteins entering into the cilia?
Do kinesin-2 and cytoplasmic dynein-2 help carry cargo into and out of the cilium through the transition zone; if they do, are their motor mechanisms modified for these tasks?
Other motors associated with cilia have not been well-studied. Additional investigation of those motors should provide deeper understanding of the control of cilia initiation and disassembly. We anticipate that future studies will identify additional motor proteins that participate in these processes.
Many mutations in cilia motor proteins have been linked to human ciliopathies and overlapping disease spectra; the complexity of these ciliopathy syndromes reflects the diverse functions of cilia-mediated signaling. It is remarkable that while many human mutations in KIF7 and Dynein have been identified, none has been found in Kinesin-II, raising interesting questions about redundancy or dosage sensitivity of the Kinesin-II. In vivo analysis using mouse models and in vitro biochemistry and single-molecule imaging will be powerful tools to understand basic biological questions such as how the Hh pathway is coupled to primary cilia and are likely to provide therapeutic strategies for ciliopathy patients in the future.
Trends Box.
The mammalian Hh pathway depends on primary cilia and intraflagellar trafficking. Both microtubule mediated transport and diffusion are required for cilia cargo localization.
Kinesin-II and Cytoplasmic Dynein-2 complex are evolutionarily conserved molecular motors required for cilia formation. Inactivation of Kinesin-II and Dynein complex causes distinct cilia structure defects and blocks Hh signaling in mouse embryos.
Mutations in KIF7 and Cytoplasmic Dynein-2 complex cause developmental abnormalities associated with misregulation of Hh signaling both in mouse and humans.
High resolution live imaging of fluorescently tagged cilia proteins, combined with cell permeable chemical modulators of motor proteins, can shed light on how trafficking is regulated within the cilium, and reveal how acute perturbation of motor activity can affect the outcome of Hh signaling.
Footnotes
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