Maxence Nachury, PhD

Professor, Ophthalmology
Research Interests: 
Trafficking biology of the primary cilium
Address: 
555 Mission Bay Blvd South, Rm 352X
UCSF Box 3120
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States
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Faculty Type: 
Core CVRI Faculty

We study the primary cilium, a surface-exposed organelle required for vision, olfaction and developmental signaling. Our lab is interested in the mechanisms of trafficking in and out of cilia and how trafficking decisions impact signaling at the cilium. One research axis focuses on Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS), a ciliopathy characterized by obesity, skeletal malformations and kidney cysts. The BBSome is an evolutionarily conserved complex of 8 BBS proteins that traffics signaling receptors out of cilia and we aim to decipher the molecular details of BBSome-mediated trafficking and the cellular, biochemical and structural level. A second research direction is aimed at cilia-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs). Ciliary signaling receptors that fail conventional exit are packaged into ciliary EVs. By dissecting the mechanisms of ciliary EV biogenesis, we will gain insight into the roles of these extracellular parcels in cell-cell communication.

Publications: 

Primary cilia control oligodendrocyte precursor cell proliferation in white matter injury via Hedgehog-independent CREB signaling.(link is external)

Cell reports

Hoi KK, Xia W, Wei MM, Ulloa Navas MJ, Garcia Verdugo JM, Nachury MV, Reiter JF, Fancy SPJ

The ancestral ESCRT protein TOM1L2 selects ubiquitinated cargoes for retrieval from cilia.(link is external)

Developmental cell

Shinde SR, Mick DU, Aoki E, Rodrigues RB, Gygi SP, Nachury MV

MRAP2 regulates energy homeostasis by promoting primary cilia localization of MC4R.(link is external)

JCI insight

Bernard A, Ojeda Naharros I, Yue X, Mifsud F, Blake A, Bourgain-Guglielmetti F, Ciprin J, Zhang S, McDaid E, Kim K, Nachury MV, Reiter JF, Vaisse C

Shedding of ciliary vesicles at a glance.(link is external)

Journal of cell science

Ojeda Naharros I, Nachury MV

Localization of GFP-Tagged Proteins Under the Electron Microscope.

Sara Gil-Perotin, A. Cebrián-Silla, V. Herranz-Pérez, P. García-Belda, S. Gil-García, M. Fil, J. S. Lee, M. V. Nachury, José Manuel García-Verdugo

Time-resolved proteomics profiling of the ciliary Hedgehog response.(link is external)

The Journal of Cell Biology

May EA, Kalocsay M, D'Auriac IG, Schuster PS, Gygi SP, Nachury MV, Mick DU

Ubiquitin chains earmark GPCRs for BBSome-mediated removal from cilia.(link is external)

The Journal of Cell Biology

Shinde SR, Nager AR, Nachury MV

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