ED’AMICO and others Kif3a and thyroid function 50:3 375–387 Research Thyroid-specific inactivation of KIF3A alters the TSH signaling pathway and leads to hypothyroidism Eva D’Amico1, Ste´phanie Gayral1, Claude Massart2, Jacqueline Van Sande2, Jeremy F Reiter3, Jacques E Dumont2, Bernard Robaye1 and Ste´phane Schurmans1,4,5,6 1Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et Mole´ culaire (IRIBHM), Institut de Biologie et de Me´ decine Mole´ culaires (IBMM), Universite´ Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Rue des Professeurs Jeener et Brachet 12, 6041 Gosselies, Belgium 2IRIBHM, Universite´ Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Campus Erasme, Route de Lennik 808, 1070 Brussels, Belgium 3Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, Smith Cardiovascular Research Building, Mission Bay Boulevard South 555, San Francisco, California 94158-9001, USA 4Laboratoire de Ge´ ne´ tique Fonctionnelle, GIGA-Research Centre, Universite´ de Lie` ge (ULg), Rue de l’Hoˆ pital 1, Correspondence 4000 Lie` ge, Belgium should be addressed 5Welbio, Universite´ de Lie` ge, Lie` ge, Belgium to S Schurmans 6Secteur de Biochimie Me´ tabolique, De´ partement des Sciences Fonctionnelles, Universite´ de Lie` ge, Boulevard de Email Colonster 20, 4000 Lie` ge, Belgium
[email protected] Abstract Kinesins, including the kinesin 2/KIF3 molecular motor, play an important role in intracellular Key Words traffic and can deliver vesicles to distal axon terminals, to cilia, to nonpolarized cell surfaces or to " thyroid epithelial cell basolateral membranes, thus taking part in the establishment of cellular polarity. " hypothyroidism We report here the consequences of kinesin 2 motor inactivation in the thyroid of 3-week-old " genetically-modified mouse C C Kif3aD/flox Pax8Cre/ mutant mice.