1 Dopamine receptors reveal an essential role of IFT-B, 2 KIF17, and Rab23 in delivering specific receptors to 3 primary cilia. 4 5 6 7 1,2 1,3,4 8 Alison Leaf and Mark von Zastrow 9 1 2 3 10 Program in Cell Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of 4 11 Psychiatry, and Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of 12 California, San Francisco, CA 94158 13 14 15 16 17 18 Running Title: Ciliary targeting of dopamine receptors 19 20 21 22 Address correspondence to: Mark von Zastrow, MC 2140, 600 16th Street, 23 San Francisco, CA 94158-2140. Fax: 415-514-0169 E-mail:
[email protected] 24 25 26 Keywords: Cilia, sorting, G protein-coupled receptor, Rab23, signaling, KIF17, 27 intraflagellar transport 28 29 30 31 32 33 Abstract 34 35 Appropriate physiological signaling by primary cilia depends on the specific targeting of 36 particular receptors to the ciliary membrane, but how this occurs remains poorly 37 understood. Here we show that D1-type dopaminergic receptors are delivered to cilia 38 from the extra-ciliary plasma membrane by a mechanism requiring the receptor 39 cytoplasmic tail, the intraflagellar transport complex-B (IFT-B), and ciliary kinesin KIF17. 40 This targeting mechanism critically depends on Rab23, a small GTP-binding protein that 41 has important effects on physiological signaling from cilia but was not known previously 42 to be essential for ciliary delivery of any cargo. Depleting Rab23 prevents dopamine 43 receptors from accessing the ciliary membrane. Conversely, fusion of Rab23 to a non- 44 ciliary receptor is sufficient to drive robust, nucleotide-dependent mis-localization to the 45 ciliary membrane.