Base editing derived models of human WDR34 and WDR60 disease alleles replicate retrograde IFT and hedgehog signaling defects and suggest disturbed Golgi protein transport

Author:

Antony Dinu1,Güleç Elif Yýlmaz,Bakey Zeineb,Schüle Isabel,Kim Gwang-Jin,Skatulla Ilona,Cathomen Toni2ORCID,Brunner Han,Arnold Sebastian,Schmidts Miriam1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University Medical Center Freiburg

2. Medical Center - University of Freiburg

Abstract

Abstract Cytoplasmic Dynein-2 / IFT-dynein is the only known retrograde motor for intraflagellar transport. Dysfunction of WDR34 and WDR60, the two intermediate chains of this complex, causes Short Rib Thoracic Dystrophy (SRTD), human skeletal chondrodysplasias with high lethality. Complete loss of function of WDR34 or WDR60 is lethal in vertebrates and individuals with SRTD carry at least one putative hypomorphic missense allele. Gene knockout is therefore not suitable to study the effect of these human missense disease alleles. Using CRISPR single base editors, we recreated three different patient missense alleles.Consistent with previous findings in the dynein-2 full loss of function models and patient fibroblasts, mutant cell lines showed hedgehog signaling defects as well as disturbed retrograde IFT. Transcriptomics analyses revealed differentially regulated expression of genes associated with various biological processes, including regulation of the actin cytoskeleton. Further, we observed differential regulation of genes associated with Golgi intracellular transport. In addition to providing cellular model systems enabling investigations of the effect of human SRTD disease alleles, our findings indicate non-ciliary functions for WDR34 and WDR60 in addition to the established roles as components of the retrograde IFT motor complex in cilia.

Publisher

Research Square Platform LLC

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