| 2008 |
A missense mutation in PRICKLE1 (R104Q) blocks the PRICKLE1–REST interaction in vitro, identifying REST as a direct binding partner of PRICKLE1 and placing PRICKLE1 in the noncanonical WNT signaling pathway as the first member directly implicated in human epilepsy. |
In vitro protein interaction assay (blocking of PRICKLE1–REST interaction); zebrafish overexpression functional assay |
American journal of human genetics |
Medium |
18976727
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| 2006 |
PRICKLE1 binds Dishevelled3 (DVL3) and promotes its ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation through destruction-box (D-box) motifs on PRICKLE1, thereby negatively regulating the WNT/β-catenin pathway in hepatocellular carcinoma cells. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, ubiquitination assay, enforced expression/knockdown with β-catenin reporter assay, D-box motif mutagenesis |
Gastroenterology |
High |
17030191
|
| 2009 |
Mouse Prickle1 (mpk1) is essential for apical-basal polarity of the epiblast; loss of mpk1 causes abnormal cell shapes, mislocalized ECM proteins, and disrupted mitotic spindle orientation. Genetic interaction with Vangl2 (another core PCP gene) was demonstrated, placing Prickle1 downstream in the PCP pathway for epiblast polarity. Dominant-negative ΔPK/LIM construct in Xenopus disrupted apical marker PKCζ localization, confirming a direct role in cortical polarity. |
Conditional knockout mice, genetic epistasis with Vangl2, Xenopus dominant-negative overexpression with apical marker (PKCζ) imaging |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
High |
19706528
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| 2016 |
PRICKLE1 forms a complex with MINK1 (serine/threonine kinase) and RICTOR (an mTORC2 component); integrity of this PRICKLE1–MINK1–RICTOR complex is required for AKT activation, focal adhesion regulation, and cancer cell migration/dissemination. Disruption of the PRICKLE1–RICTOR interaction strongly impairs breast cancer cell dissemination in xenograft assays. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, proximity ligation, xenograft in vivo dissemination assay, focal adhesion imaging |
Developmental cell |
High |
27184734
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| 2016 |
PRICKLE1 accumulates at cell retraction sites near focal adhesions, where it promotes focal adhesion disassembly by associating with CLASP1/2 and LL5β (PHLDB2) and enabling LL5β-dependent accumulation of CLASPs at the cell edge to drive microtubule targeting of focal adhesions. Membrane localization via a farnesyl moiety is required for these functions. |
Live-cell imaging (TIRF/FRAP), co-immunoprecipitation, siRNA knockdown with focal adhesion turnover assay, farnesylation mutant analysis |
Journal of cell science |
High |
27378169
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| 2013 |
PRICKLE1 physically interacts with SYNAPSIN I (SYN1) in neurons, co-localizing with endogenous Syn1. The interaction is through the SYN1 region mutated in ASD and epilepsy. A PRICKLE1 mutation disrupts its ability to increase the size of dense-core vesicles in PC12 cells, implicating PRICKLE1 in synaptic vesicle regulation. |
Yeast two-hybrid screen (human brain cDNA library), co-immunoprecipitation/co-localization in neurons, dense-core vesicle size assay in PC12 cells |
PloS one |
Medium |
24312498
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| 2014 |
Prickle1 is a proteasomal target of WNT5A signaling in mice; complete Prickle1 loss leads to misregulation of DVL2 (a WNT5A target), and Prickle1 mutants phenocopy Wnt5a and Ror2 mutants, placing Prickle1 downstream of WNT5A-ROR2 in the noncanonical WNT pathway. |
Multiple Prickle1 mutant alleles in mice, epistasis with Wnt5a/Ror2 mutants, proteasome inhibitor experiments to assess Prickle1 degradation, immunostaining of DVL2 |
Biology open |
Medium |
25190059
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| 2012 |
Prickle1 associates with Dishevelled1 (DVL1), and overexpression of Prickle1 reduces DVL1 protein levels; overexpression of DVL1 blocks Prickle1-induced neurite-like process formation, demonstrating that Prickle1 promotes neurite outgrowth via a DVL1-dependent mechanism. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, overexpression and knockdown in C1300 neuroblastoma cells, neurite outgrowth assay |
Methods in molecular biology |
Medium |
22218901
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| 2022 |
In Xenopus prechordal mesoderm, cytoplasmic (diffuse) Prickle1 upregulates cortical F-actin content, antagonizing DVL2-mediated cortex downregulation; both factors act upstream of casein kinase II to modulate cortical tension, affecting cell migration and rearrangement during radial intercalation. Punctate/plaque forms of Pk1 are associated with localized depletion of cortical F-actin, suggesting opposite roles for diffuse versus punctate Pk1. |
Xenopus live imaging, F-actin quantification, cortical tension measurements, dominant-negative and overexpression constructs, epistasis with casein kinase II |
The Journal of cell biology |
High |
35512799
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| 2021 |
The Prickle1 LIM1 domain mediates protein–protein interactions with DVL2 and DVL3 in chondrocytes; a missense mutation in the LIM1 domain (Prickle1Bj) reduces these interactions, causing randomized chondrocyte polarity (assessed by primary cilia and PRICKLE1/DVL localization) and precocious maturation with stalled terminal differentiation. |
In vivo co-immunoprecipitation, proximity ligation assay, immunofluorescence of primary cilia/polarity markers in growth plates |
Journal of bone and mineral research |
Medium |
34423861
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| 2019 |
In zebrafish, Prickle1a and Prickle1b are required for epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and collective migration of cranial neural crest cells; loss of Pk1b elevates E-Cadherin and reduces N-Cadherin levels, indicating Prickle1 regulates cadherin switching during EMT. |
pk1a/pk1b mutant zebrafish analysis, live-cell time-lapse imaging, immunofluorescence for E-Cadherin and N-Cadherin |
Developmental biology |
Medium |
30721665
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| 2021 |
USP7 (ubiquitin-specific protease 7) deubiquitinates and stabilizes PRICKLE1 protein; morin inhibits USP7, leading to increased PRICKLE1 ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation (blocked by MG132 but not the lysosomal inhibitor BafA1), which in turn disrupts the PRICKLE1–mTORC2 complex and AKT/PKCα activation to impair cell migration. |
USP7 overexpression/inhibitor experiments, ubiquitination assay, proteasome/lysosome inhibitor treatment, co-immunoprecipitation |
Molecular nutrition & food research |
Medium |
34331380
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| 2020 |
Prickle1 is required for polarized basement membrane deposition during tear duct elongation; Prickle1 disruption causes loss of basement membrane deposition and aberrant cytoplasmic accumulation of laminin, with associated defects in cell adhesion, cytoskeletal and vesicular transport, and cell axis orientation. |
Prickle1 mutant mouse analysis, immunofluorescence for laminin/BM components, cytoskeletal and vesicular transport markers |
Development (Cambridge, England) |
Medium |
33144400
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| 2024 |
In iPSC-derived embryoid bodies, Prickle1 directs secretion of basement membrane components through a proper microtubule network and vesicle trafficking in visceral endoderm cells; reintroduction of Prickle1 in mutant EBs rescues BM formation but not apicobasal polarity, demonstrating BM deposition and apicobasal polarity are separable Prickle1 functions. |
iPSC-derived embryoid body system, Prickle1 rescue experiments, microtubule network analysis, vesicle trafficking assays, immunofluorescence |
Cell proliferation |
Medium |
38185785
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| 2021 |
The Prickle1 R104Q mutation impairs the interaction between PK1 and REST, reduces excitatory synapse density in hippocampus, decreases seizure threshold, and impairs social interaction and cognition in mice, linking the PK1–REST interaction to epilepsy/ASD-related synaptic phenotypes. |
CRISPR-Cas9 knock-in mouse (R104Q), co-immunoprecipitation for PK1–REST interaction, immunostaining of synaptic markers, behavioral assays |
Experimental neurology |
Medium |
34597683
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| 2024 |
Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα), acting through EZH2-mediated H3K27 methylation at the PRICKLE1 promoter, represses PRICKLE1 expression; reduced PRICKLE1 destabilizes REST protein. Conversely, PRICKLE1 overexpression restores REST in leiomyoma smooth muscle cells, establishing PRICKLE1 as required for REST protein stability in myometrial cells. |
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) for EZH2 and H3K27me3 at PRICKLE1 promoter, siRNA knockdown of EZH2, overexpression of PRICKLE1, conditional knockout mice (Lhb, Esr1) |
bioRxivpreprint |
Medium |
39314474
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| 2025 |
PRICKLE1 interactome mapping (miniTurboID proximity biotinylation + MS) reveals PRICKLE1 localizes intracellularly and interacts with DVL2/DVL3 as binding partners in the WNT/PCP pathway. Notably, unlike PRICKLE3, PRICKLE1 does not influence levels or phosphorylation status of DVL2 and DVL3 under near-physiological expression conditions, contradicting earlier overexpression-based findings. |
miniTurboID proximity biotinylation combined with mass spectrometry, inducible expression system |
bioRxivpreprint |
Low |
bio_10.1101_2025.03.24.644882
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| 2026 |
In quail junctional neural tube, PRICKLE1 is enriched at the apical cortex of medial neuroepithelial cells where it drives actomyosin accumulation and apical constriction to orchestrate mediolateral convergence and EMT-driven cell ingression, independently of classical planar polarity axis establishment. |
High-resolution quantitative live imaging in transgenic quail embryos, loss-of-function with actomyosin and polarity marker readout |
Nature communications |
Medium |
42045189
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