| 2003 |
Missense mutations in Celsr1 (spin cycle and crash alleles) disrupt planar cell polarity of inner ear hair cells and cause severe neural tube defects due to failure to initiate neural tube closure in mice, establishing Celsr1 as the first mammalian member of the flamingo/starry night PCP pathway. |
ENU mutagenesis, missense mutation identification, phenotypic analysis of heterozygous and homozygous mutants |
Current biology : CB |
High |
12842012
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| 2011 |
Missense variants in human CELSR1 associated with craniorachischisis abolish or diminish trafficking of CELSR1 protein to the plasma membrane, without affecting protein-protein interactions; comparable membrane trafficking defects were seen in crash and spin cycle mouse Celsr1 mutants. |
Subcellular protein localization assays, protein-protein interaction assays, sequencing of human CRN patients |
Human mutation |
Medium |
22095531
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| 2010 |
Celsr1 (Crash allele) is required for normal lung branching morphogenesis; mutant lungs show fewer branches, thickened mesenchyme, disrupted epithelial integrity, perturbed cytoskeletal remodelling, and failure of mutant endoderm to branch in response to FGF10; this phenotype is recapitulated by Rho kinase inhibition, placing Celsr1 upstream of Rho kinase in lung PCP signaling. |
Mouse mutant analysis (Celsr1Crsh), Rho kinase inhibitor treatment, ex vivo branching assay with FGF10 |
Human molecular genetics |
Medium |
20223754
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| 2013 |
Celsr1 is recruited from endothelial filopodia to discrete membrane domains at cell-cell contacts during lymphatic valve morphogenesis and regulates dynamic endothelial cell movements by inhibiting stabilization of VE-cadherin and maturation of adherens junctions. |
Celsr1-deficient mouse analysis, live imaging of endothelial cell behaviors, localization studies of Celsr1 and VE-cadherin |
Developmental cell |
High |
23792146
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| 2010 |
Celsr1 functions non-cell-autonomously in facial branchiomotor (FBM) neuron migration: Celsr1 is expressed in FBM neuron precursors and the floor plate (not in migrating FBM neurons themselves), and its loss causes neurons to migrate rostrally instead of caudally. Celsr1 is epistatic to Celsr2 in this context. |
Knock-out and Crash allele mouse analysis, conditional inactivation, genetic epistasis (Celsr2 epistatic to Celsr1) |
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience |
High |
20631168
|
| 2014 |
Celsr1 is required for multilevel polarity in the mouse oviduct: it is concentrated at specific cellular boundaries perpendicular to the ovary-uterus axis; its loss randomizes ciliary beat orientation, cell elongation/orientation, and epithelial fold directionality. Mosaic analysis shows that Celsr1 primarily regulates epithelial cell geometry, which secondarily aligns epithelial folds. |
Celsr1-deficient mouse analysis, mosaic analysis, immunofluorescence localization, ciliary motion assays |
Development (Cambridge, England) |
High |
25406397
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| 2014 |
Two TG dinucleotide repeat variants in CELSR1 found in spina bifida patients change its subcellular localization and impair its physical association with VANGL2, diminishing the ability of CELSR1 to recruit VANGL2 to cell-cell contacts. |
In vitro subcellular localization assay, co-immunoprecipitation (physical interaction assay between CELSR1 and VANGL2) |
PloS one |
Medium |
24632739
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| 2016 |
Celsr1 functions non-cell-autonomously in FBM neuron migration: conditional inactivation specifically in the ventricular zone of rhombomeres r3-r5 (not in the floor plate) causes rostral migration of FBM neurons, indicating that Celsr1 in the adjacent neuroepithelium suppresses signals that could otherwise attract FBM neurons rostrally. |
Conditional (Cre-lox) inactivation of Celsr1 in specific cell types, dye fill experiments to trace neuron origins |
Developmental biology |
High |
27395006
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| 2019 |
The CELSR1 missense mutation P870L (c.2609G>A) is a gain-of-function mutation that upregulates both the PCP pathway and canonical WNT signaling in cells, and induces both neural tube defects and congenital heart defects in zebrafish embryos. |
In vitro cell-based assay for PCP and WNT pathway activity, zebrafish in vivo injection assay |
Clinical science (London, England : 1979) |
Medium |
27756857
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| 2021 |
Mouse Celsr1 engages in both trans- and cis-interactions, forming dense and highly stable punctate assemblies at junctions. The PCP-mutant variant Celsr1Crsh selectively impairs lateral cis-interactions, displays increased mobility, fails to engage in homophilic adhesion with wild-type protein, and consequently fails to organize Frizzled6 and Vangl2 into asymmetric junctional complexes, a defect rescuable by ectopic cis-dimerization. |
Biochemical assays, super-resolution microscopy, FRAP, co-immunoprecipitation with Fzd6 and Vangl2, ectopic cis-dimerization rescue experiment |
eLife |
High |
33529151
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| 2021 |
In mouse oviduct multi-ciliated cells, CELSR1 is required for intercellular coordination of basal body (BB) orientation, while CAMSAP3 (a microtubule minus-end regulator) controls intracellular BB orientation; CELSR1 loss disrupts intercellular but not intracellular polarity coordination, and does not affect CAMSAP3 localization. |
Celsr1-deficient and Camsap3-mutant mouse analysis, immunofluorescence, genetic epistasis (double mutant analysis) |
Journal of cell science |
High |
33468623
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| 2017 |
Celsr1 controls branching of apical neural progenitor cell (aNPC) basal processes abutting the meninges and thereby regulates retinoic acid (RA)-dependent neurogenesis. Loss of Celsr1 decreases endfeet number, modifies RA-dependent transcriptional activity, and biases aNPC commitment toward self-renewal at the expense of basal progenitor and neuron production, resulting in cortical hypoplasia. |
Celsr1 loss-of-function mouse analysis, RA transcriptional activity assay, progenitor fate quantification |
Molecular psychiatry |
Medium |
29257130
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| 2017 |
Celsr1 is asymmetrically distributed at cell boundaries between hair cells and neighboring supporting cells in developing vestibular and auditory sensory epithelia; loss of Celsr1 results in misoriented stereociliary bundles of vestibular hair cells, particularly in the cristae of the semicircular canals. |
Celsr1 knockout mouse analysis, immunofluorescence localization, behavioral analysis (circling) |
Developmental biology |
Medium |
28159525
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| 2023 |
CELSR1 and CELSR3 are cleavage-deficient (lack autoproteolytic cleavage at the GAIN domain), while CELSR2 is efficiently cleaved. Despite this, CELSR1-3 all engage GαS. CELSR1 tethered agonist (TA) point mutants retain GαS coupling activity, indicating CELSR1 signals via a cleavage-independent mechanism distinct from the canonical tethered-agonist paradigm. |
G protein coupling assays, autoproteolysis assays, tethered agonist point mutant analysis |
Cell reports |
High |
37224017
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| 2024 |
CELSR1 tethered agonist (TA) point mutants retain GαS coupling activity; CELSR1 and CELSR3 are cleavage-deficient, while CELSR2 autoproteolysis enhances GαS coupling, yet acute TA exposure alone is insufficient for full activation. |
G protein coupling assays, autoproteolysis assays, tethered agonist point mutant analysis |
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biologypreprint |
Medium |
37066404
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| 2025 |
Cryo-EM reconstruction of the mouse CELSR1 extracellular region (ECR) at 3.8 Å reveals 14 domains forming a compact module via conserved interactions between the CADH9 and C-terminal GAIN domains. In the presence of Ca2+, the CELSR1 ECR forms a dimer species via cadherin repeats putatively in antiparallel fashion. Cell-based assays show the N-terminal CADH1-8 repeat is required for cell-cell adhesion, while the C-terminal CADH9-GAIN compact module regulates cellular adhesion/signaling. |
Cryo-EM structure determination (3.8 Å), cell-based adhesion assays, domain deletion analysis |
Nature communications |
High |
40295529
|
| 2024 |
Crystal structures of human CELSR1 EC1-4 and EC4-7 reveal typical cadherin folds with a non-canonical linker between EC5 and EC6. EC1-4 only dimerizes at high concentration in solution; EC7-MAD10 mediates dimerization; simulations and experiments indicate flexibility at EC5-6. Cell-based bead aggregation assays do not support strong adhesion by EC repeats alone, suggesting weak homophilic adhesion by CELSR1 cadherin repeats. |
X-ray crystallography (EC1-4 and EC4-7 crystal structures), bead aggregation assays, solution dimerization assays, molecular dynamics simulations |
Structure (London, England : 1993) |
High |
38307021
|
| 2023 |
Celsr1 is the major Celsr family member driving epidermal planar cell polarity: removal of Celsr1 alone abolishes PCP protein asymmetry and hair follicle polarization, whereas loss of Celsr2 alone has no effect on epidermal PCP. FRAP assays show Celsr1 stably enriches at junctional interfaces while Celsr2 is much less efficiently recruited; both interact equivalently with Vangl2 and Fz6. |
CRISPR/Cas9 knockout of Celsr1 and Celsr2, FRAP, junctional enrichment assay, co-immunoprecipitation with Vangl2 and Fz6 |
Frontiers in cell and developmental biology |
High |
36712970
|
| 2022 |
Celsr1 suppresses Wnt5a-mediated chemoattraction to direct caudal facial branchiomotor (FBM) neuron migration: in Celsr1;Wnt5a double mutants, FBM neurons never migrate rostrally; Wnt5a-coated beads attract FBM neurons rostrally in wild-type explants; and overexpression of Wnt5a in r3 of Celsr1 mutants greatly enhances rostral migration, establishing a genetic epistasis mechanism. |
Genetic epistasis (double mutant Celsr1;Wnt5a), bead implantation assay in hindbrain explants, Wnt5a overexpression in Celsr1 mutant background |
Development (Cambridge, England) |
High |
36325991
|
| 2010 |
Celsr1 protein is enriched at the basal surface of neuroepithelial cells within the early neural tube and in ventricular zone cells at the spinal cord midline, and this basal enrichment is lost in Celsr1 homozygous mutant embryos; this basal localization is spatiotemporally associated with dorsal sensory tract morphogenesis. |
Immunofluorescence localization in wild-type and Celsr1 mutant embryos, comparative analysis of protein distribution |
Molecular and cellular neurosciences |
Medium |
20353824
|
| 2020 |
Knockdown of Celsr1 in the subventricular zone (SVZ) after cerebral ischemia reduces neuroblast proliferation, CD31-positive cell number, and motor function, and increases apoptosis and infarct volume; these effects are associated with downregulation of p-PKC, placing Celsr1 upstream of Wnt/PKC signaling in post-ischemic neurogenesis and angiogenesis. |
Lentiviral Celsr1 knockdown in MCAO rat model, immunohistochemistry, functional behavioral assays |
International journal of molecular sciences |
Medium |
32070035
|
| 2016 |
CELSR1 promotes endothelial cell migration and tube formation through Dishevelled segment polarity protein 3 (Dvl3); gain- and loss-of-function of CELSR1 in human aortic endothelial cells bidirectionally regulate migration and angiogenic tube formation. |
TALE-VP64-mediated CELSR1 overexpression, shRNA knockdown, scratch/transwell migration assay, tube formation assay |
Biochemistry. Biokhimiia |
Medium |
27301287
|
| 2024 |
De novo heterozygous CELSR1 missense variant p.(Cys1318Tyr) disrupts subcellular localization of CELSR1, affects cell-cell junctions, impairs planar cell polarity signaling, and lowers proliferation rate in vitro. |
In vitro subcellular localization assays, cell-cell junction assay, PCP signaling assay, proliferation assay |
Journal of medical genetics |
Medium |
38272662
|