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Vol. 15, Issue 5, 2105-2115, May 2004

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A Tektin Homologue Is Decreased in Chlamydomonas Mutants Lacking an Axonemal Inner-Arm Dynein

Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 164-8639, Japan; and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Submitted November 28, 2003; Revised January 27, 2004; Accepted January 27, 2004
Monitoring Editor: Paul Matsudaira

In ciliary and flagellar axonemes, various discrete structures such as inner and outer dynein arms are regularly arranged on the outer doublet microtubules. Little is known about the basis for their regular arrangement. In this study, proteins involved in the attachment of inner-arm dyneins were searched by a microtubule overlay assay on Chlamydomonas mutant axonemes. A 58-kDa protein (p58) was found 80% diminished in the mutants ida6 and pf3, both lacking one (species e) of the seven inner-arm species (a–g). Analysis of its cDNA indicated that p58 is homologous to tektin, a protein that was originally found in sea urchin and thought to be crucial for the longitudinal periodicity of the doublet microtubule. Unlike sea urchin tektin, which is a component of protofilament ribbons that occur after Sarkosyl treatment of axonemes, p58 was not contained in similar Sarkosyl-resistant ribbons from Chlamydomonas axonemes. Immunofluorescence microscopy showed that p58 was localized uniformly along the axoneme and on the basal body. The p58 signal was reduced in ida6 and pf3. These results suggest that a reduced amount of p58 is sufficient for the production of outer doublets, whereas an additional amount of it is involved in inner-arm dynein attachment.

* Corresponding author. E-mail address: kamiyar{at}biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

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