Intrinsic heterogeneity of primary cilia revealed through spatial proteomicsKTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Protein Science, Cellular and Clinical Proteomics. KTH, Centres, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab.
Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute, Redwood City, CA, USA.
KTH, Centres, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab. KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Protein Science, Cellular and Clinical Proteomics. Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Protein Science, Cellular and Clinical Proteomics. KTH, Centres, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab.
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Protein Science, Cellular and Clinical Proteomics. KTH, Centres, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab.
KTH, Centres, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab. KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Protein Science, Cellular and Clinical Proteomics.
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
KTH, Centres, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab. KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Protein Science, Cellular and Clinical Proteomics. Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Cancer Precision Medicine Research Unit, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Clinical Genetics and Genomics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute, Redwood City, CA, USA.
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Clinical Genetics and Genomics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
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2025 (English)In: Cell, ISSN 0092-8674, E-ISSN 1097-4172, Vol. 188, no 24, p. 6804-6824.e16Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Primary cilia are critical organelles found on most human cells. Their dysfunction is linked to hereditary ciliopathies with a wide phenotypic spectrum. Despite their significance, the specific roles of cilia in different cell types remain poorly understood due to limitations in analyzing ciliary protein composition. We employed antibody-based spatial proteomics to expand the Human Protein Atlas to primary cilia. Our analysis identified the subciliary locations of 715 proteins across three cell lines, examining 128,156 individual cilia. We found that 69% of the ciliary proteome is cell-type specific, and 78% exhibited single-cilia heterogeneity. Our findings portray cilia as sensors tuning their proteome to effectively sense the environment and compute cellular responses. We reveal 91 cilia proteins and found a genetic candidate variant in CREB3 in one clinical case with features overlapping ciliopathy phenotypes. This open, spatial cilia atlas advances research on cilia and ciliopathies.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2025. Vol. 188, no 24, p. 6804-6824.e16
Keywords [en]
3D images, cell-type specificity, cellular heterogeneity, cilia, ciliopathies, immunofluorescence microscopy, primary cilia, signaling, signaling microdomains, spatial proteomics
National Category
Developmental Biology Clinical Laboratory Medicine Neurosciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-371990DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.08.039ISI: 001632367300009PubMedID: 41005307Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105017257456OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-371990DiVA, id: diva2:2008331
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2025-10-222025-10-222026-01-27Bibliographically approved
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