DYNLT2B

UniProt ID: A0A9L0SWY1
Organism: Equus caballus
Review Status: COMPLETE
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Gene Description

Dynein light chain Tctex-type 2B (DYNLT2B, also known as TCTEX1D2) is a small non-catalytic Tctex-1-fold light chain of the cytoplasmic dynein-2 motor that drives retrograde intraflagellar transport in cilia. By one-to-one orthology with human DYNLT2B (PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, about 91-93% identity over the Tctex domain), the equine protein is expected to heterodimerize with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and bind the dynein-2 intermediate chain WDR60/DYNC2I1, contributing to retrograde ciliary protein trafficking; in mouse the orthologue is additionally required for sperm flagellum assembly. The equine locus (Ensembl ENSECAG00000015913, chromosome 19) is annotated with at least ten protein models that differ at the N- and C-termini. The A0A9L0SWY1 model (245 residues) carries an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension and ends after the fourth beta-strand, lacking the C-terminal beta-strand (human residues 128-142) that forms part of the Tctex fold, whereas other equine models (for example A0A9L0S150 and A0A9L0TLH8) encode the complete fold. No equine experimental characterization has been reported.

Core Functions

Non-catalytic Tctex-type light chain of cytoplasmic dynein-2 that, as a heterodimer with DYNLT1/DYNLT3, binds the WDR60/DYNC2I1 intermediate chain and supports retrograde intraflagellar transport. Assigned to the equine gene by one-to-one orthology (PANTHER PTHR21255:SF7, the DYNLT2B-specific subfamily) to the experimentally characterized human protein. The A0A9L0SWY1 model specifically lacks the C-terminal beta-strand, so whether this particular protein form is competent for the function is unresolved.

Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:29742051
    The dynein-2 complex can be divided into three subcomplexes, namely DYNC2H1-DYNC2LI1, WDR34-DYNLL1/DYNLL2-DYNLRB1/DYNLRB2, and WDR60-TCTEX1D2-DYNLT1/DYNLT3.
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-bioinformatics/RESULTS.md
    The horse sequence A0A9L0SWY1 (245 residues) aligns to human Q8WW35 (142 residues) with 91.41% identity across 128 paired residues.
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt
    PANTHER; PTHR21255:SF7; DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN TCTEX-TYPE PROTEIN 2B; 1.

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Suggested Questions for Experts

Q: Which equine DYNLT2B transcript is the predominant product in ciliated tissues and testis? The locus carries at least ten protein models; A0A9L0SWY1 combines an N-terminal disordered extension with a C-terminus that stops before the final Tctex beta-strand, while the Ensembl canonical model (A0A9L0S150) and A0A9L0TLH8 retain the human C-terminus, so transcript-level evidence is needed to decide whether the truncated form is expressed at all.

Q: Does the missing C-terminal region matter functionally? It covers most of the terminal beta-strand of the human Tctex fold, and human DYNLT2B works as a DYNLT2B-DYNLT1/DYNLT3 dimer bound to the WDR60 intermediate chain, so the question is whether this protein form can still dimerize and engage WDR60 at all.

Q: Given that mouse Tctex1d2 loss disrupts sperm flagellum assembly while leaving motile cilia normal, is the equine requirement for DYNLT2B likewise flagellum-biased, and is the long N-terminal extension expressed in testis?

Suggested Experiments

Experiment: Long-read (Iso-Seq or targeted nanopore) sequencing of DYNLT2B transcripts from horse testis and a ciliated tissue, plus 5-prime RACE to fix the translation start; reassemble the ORF and re-run the paired comparison in DYNLT2B-bioinformatics on the corrected sequence.

Hypothesis: The equine DYNLT2B locus encodes a product matching the human light chain over its full length, and the N-terminal extension plus C-terminal truncation in A0A9L0SWY1 reflect a gene-model or translation-start discrepancy rather than equine biology.

Type: full-length transcript sequencing / gene-model validation

Experiment: Co-express the selected horse sequence, an N-terminally trimmed version, and a C-terminally restored version against DYNLT1/DYNLT3 and WDR60 in the visible-immunoprecipitation format used to map the human dynein-2 subcomplexes (PMID:29742051), scoring dimer formation and WDR60 recruitment with human TCTEX1D2 as the positive control.

Hypothesis: Loss of the C-terminal strand abolishes the DYNLT2B-DYNLT1 dimer and hence WDR60 binding, whereas the N-terminal extension is dispensable for both.

Type: pairwise interaction mapping / co-immunoprecipitation

Experiment: Complement human TCTEX1D2-knockout cells with the selected horse sequence and with any transcript-verified full-length equine form, and score rescue of the retrograde trafficking defect (ciliary accumulation of IFT-B and GPCR cargo) against human TCTEX1D2 and empty vector.

Hypothesis: Whichever equine form is real, it supports retrograde ciliary protein trafficking as the human light chain does.

Type: cross-species complementation in a knockout cell line

External Prediction Reviews

These computational predictions are reviewed separately from the GOA annotation set used for this review. The assessments below are from this project and do not constitute official GO annotations or endorsement by GO/UniProt. They are not included in the existing annotation review above.

ProtNLM2 External predictions

View prediction review YAML Β· DYNLT2B-protnlm-predictions-review.yaml Β· Review status: COMPLETE

ProtNLM2 made ten GO predictions for A0A9L0SWY1, one of at least ten protein models of the horse DYNLT2B gene, which has no GOA annotation on any product. Nine terms are true of the gene by transfer within the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7 from experimentally characterized human and mouse orthologues and would be novel for it: dynein intermediate chain binding, intraciliary retrograde transport, ciliary base, axoneme, cilium assembly, regulation of cilium assembly, and the centrosome, interphase microtubule-organizing-center and spindle-pole locations. This accession lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and whether the truncated product can still heterodimerize and bind WDR60, on which all nine depend, is untested, so they are scored UNC for this product. Regulation of intraciliary retrograde transport is incorrect, because the loss-of-function evidence shows the protein is part of the retrograde IFT machinery rather than a regulator of it.

Source documents: genes/HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-bioinformatics/RESULTS.md Β· genes/human/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt Β· projects/PROTNLM_EVALUATION/mammal-benchmark/horse40-predictions.csv Β· genes/HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt Β· genes/HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-ai-review.yaml Β· genes/HORSE/DYNLT2B__A0A9L0S9P8/DYNLT2B__A0A9L0S9P8-ai-review.yaml Β· genes/human/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-ai-review.yaml Β· genes/mouse/Dynlt2b/Dynlt2b-ai-review.yaml Β· interpro/panther/PTHR21255/PTHR21255-review.yaml

Review score: 2 = concordant with evidence; 1 = uncertain; 0 = discordant with evidence. This is an assessment score, not a model probability.

GO:0097546 ciliary base GO_CC
UNC β€” Uncertain Review score: 1/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
Review rationale: The horse protein is a one-to-one orthologue of human DYNLT2B in the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, with 91% identity over the aligned Tctex domain. Endogenous human TCTEX1D2 colocalizes with WDR60 at the ciliary base, the site where IFT dynein is loaded onto trains; the human and mouse reviews accept this location as part of the core retrograde IFT context. Transfer within the subfamily is justified because the location follows from dynein-2 membership. The horse gene has no GOA annotation on any product, so the term is novel for it. Product-level assessment: ProtNLM2 was given A0A9L0SWY1, which keeps the Tctex domain signatures (Pfam PF03645, CDD cd21459) and the human Tctex strands at residues 4-11, 89-99, 104-113 and 119-126, but ends two residues after strand 119-126 and so lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and it adds an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension. In the human DYNLT1-DYNLT2B heterodimer crystal structure (PDB 8RGI), most DYNLT2B residues within 4 angstroms of DYNLT1 lie in the retained strands 89-112, and only residues 137, 139 and 140 of the missing strand contact DYNLT1, but that strand belongs to the core beta-sheet of the fold. Whether this truncated product folds, heterodimerizes with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and binds WDR60, on which ciliary-base localization, which follows from incorporation into dynein-2 through WDR60 depends, is untested, so the prediction is UNC for this product although the term is correct and novel for the gene.
Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:25830415: "Tctex1d2 associates with Wdr34, Wdr60, and other subunits of Dync1 and Dync2 and colocalizes with Wdr60 to microtubule organizing centers during interphase, the mitotic spindle poles during cell division, and the base of the cilium in ciliated cells."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt: "PANTHER; PTHR21255:SF7; DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN TCTEX-TYPE PROTEIN 2B; 1."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-bioinformatics/RESULTS.md: "The horse sequence A0A9L0SWY1 (245 residues) aligns to human Q8WW35 (142 residues) with 91.41% identity across 128 paired residues."
GO:0045505 dynein intermediate chain binding GO_MF
UNC β€” Uncertain Review score: 1/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
Review rationale: The horse protein is a one-to-one orthologue of human DYNLT2B in the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, with 91% identity over the aligned Tctex domain. Human TCTEX1D2 forms a WDR60-TCTEX1D2-DYNLT1/DYNLT3 subcomplex mapped by immunoprecipitation, and mouse endogenous tagged TCTEX1D2 co-precipitates dynein-2 intermediate chains; PAINT places the term at the Tctex family node ancestral to SF7. This is the core molecular function in the horse gene review and in the review of the canonical horse product A0A9L0S9P8. It is an orthology inference, not a horse experiment. The horse gene has no GOA annotation on any product, so the term is novel for it. Product-level assessment: ProtNLM2 was given A0A9L0SWY1, which keeps the Tctex domain signatures (Pfam PF03645, CDD cd21459) and the human Tctex strands at residues 4-11, 89-99, 104-113 and 119-126, but ends two residues after strand 119-126 and so lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and it adds an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension. In the human DYNLT1-DYNLT2B heterodimer crystal structure (PDB 8RGI), most DYNLT2B residues within 4 angstroms of DYNLT1 lie in the retained strands 89-112, and only residues 137, 139 and 140 of the missing strand contact DYNLT1, but that strand belongs to the core beta-sheet of the fold. Whether this truncated product folds, heterodimerizes with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and binds WDR60, on which this binding activity depends, is untested, so the prediction is UNC for this product although the term is correct and novel for the gene.
Supporting Evidence:
GO:0000922 spindle pole GO_CC
UNC β€” Uncertain Review score: 1/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
Review rationale: The horse protein is a one-to-one orthologue of human DYNLT2B in the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, with 91% identity over the aligned Tctex domain. Human TCTEX1D2 colocalizes with WDR60 at mitotic spindle poles by immunofluorescence; the human and mouse reviews keep this as a supported but non-core location. The term is peripheral to the ciliary dynein-2 role, and rests on a single human imaging study. The horse gene has no GOA annotation on any product, so the term is novel for it. Product-level assessment: ProtNLM2 was given A0A9L0SWY1, which keeps the Tctex domain signatures (Pfam PF03645, CDD cd21459) and the human Tctex strands at residues 4-11, 89-99, 104-113 and 119-126, but ends two residues after strand 119-126 and so lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and it adds an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension. In the human DYNLT1-DYNLT2B heterodimer crystal structure (PDB 8RGI), most DYNLT2B residues within 4 angstroms of DYNLT1 lie in the retained strands 89-112, and only residues 137, 139 and 140 of the missing strand contact DYNLT1, but that strand belongs to the core beta-sheet of the fold. Whether this truncated product folds, heterodimerizes with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and binds WDR60, on which spindle-pole localization, which in human cells accompanies WDR60 depends, is untested, so the prediction is UNC for this product although the term is correct and novel for the gene.
Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:25830415: "Tctex1d2 associates with Wdr34, Wdr60, and other subunits of Dync1 and Dync2 and colocalizes with Wdr60 to microtubule organizing centers during interphase, the mitotic spindle poles during cell division, and the base of the cilium in ciliated cells."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt: "PANTHER; PTHR21255:SF7; DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN TCTEX-TYPE PROTEIN 2B; 1."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-bioinformatics/RESULTS.md: "The horse sequence A0A9L0SWY1 (245 residues) aligns to human Q8WW35 (142 residues) with 91.41% identity across 128 paired residues."
GO:0035721 intraciliary retrograde transport GO_BP
UNC β€” Uncertain Review score: 1/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
Review rationale: The horse protein is a one-to-one orthologue of human DYNLT2B in the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, with 91% identity over the aligned Tctex domain. Human TCTEX1D2-knockout cells and patient fibroblasts show retrograde ciliary trafficking defects, and Chlamydomonas Tctex2b loss destabilizes IFT dynein; the protein contributes structure to the dynein-2 tail, which is participation in the process. This is the core process in the human and mouse reviews, and the horse review's core function places the gene in retrograde IFT by orthology. The horse gene has no GOA annotation on any product, so the term is novel for it. Product-level assessment: ProtNLM2 was given A0A9L0SWY1, which keeps the Tctex domain signatures (Pfam PF03645, CDD cd21459) and the human Tctex strands at residues 4-11, 89-99, 104-113 and 119-126, but ends two residues after strand 119-126 and so lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and it adds an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension. In the human DYNLT1-DYNLT2B heterodimer crystal structure (PDB 8RGI), most DYNLT2B residues within 4 angstroms of DYNLT1 lie in the retained strands 89-112, and only residues 137, 139 and 140 of the missing strand contact DYNLT1, but that strand belongs to the core beta-sheet of the fold. Whether this truncated product folds, heterodimerizes with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and binds WDR60, on which participation in retrograde IFT as a structural dynein-2 tail subunit depends, is untested, so the prediction is UNC for this product although the term is correct and novel for the gene.
Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:29742051: "both WDR60-knockout (KO) and TCTEX1D2-KO cells show defects in retrograde ciliary protein trafficking"
  • PMID:26044572: "Loss of TCTEX1D2 impairs retrograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) in humans and the protist Chlamydomonas, accompanied by destabilization of the retrograde IFT dynein motor."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt: "PANTHER; PTHR21255:SF7; DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN TCTEX-TYPE PROTEIN 2B; 1."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-bioinformatics/RESULTS.md: "The horse sequence A0A9L0SWY1 (245 residues) aligns to human Q8WW35 (142 residues) with 91.41% identity across 128 paired residues."
GO:1905799 regulation of intraciliary retrograde transport GO_BP
NPI β€” Nonparalog incorrect Review score: 0/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
CURATION MISTAKE
Review rationale: The evidence behind this term is loss-of-function: removing TCTEX1D2 impairs retrograde IFT and destabilizes the IFT dynein motor. That shows the protein is part of the machinery that executes retrograde IFT, not a modulator of a process carried out by others. The human and mouse reviews both correct the corresponding annotations laterally to GO:0035721 intraciliary retrograde transport on exactly these grounds, which also refutes the regulation term predicted here; the prediction reproduces the upstream regulation framing. The participation term GO:0035721 is predicted separately; it is true of the gene but is scored UNC for this alternative model.
Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:26044572: "We thus define TCTEX1D2 as an integral component of the evolutionarily conserved retrograde IFT machinery."
GO:0060271 cilium assembly GO_BP
UNC β€” Uncertain Review score: 1/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
Review rationale: The horse protein is a one-to-one orthologue of human DYNLT2B in the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, with 91% identity over the aligned Tctex domain. Human TCTEX1D2 depletion caused ciliogenesis defects in one study, and in mouse the knockout disrupts sperm flagellum assembly (a descendant of cilium assembly) while somatic motile cilia appear normal. Cilium assembly is broad but true for the gene; no more specific term is annotated to the horse gene, so LSP does not apply. The human review keeps it as non-core because the effect is downstream of retrograde IFT. The horse gene has no GOA annotation on any product, so the term is novel for it. Product-level assessment: ProtNLM2 was given A0A9L0SWY1, which keeps the Tctex domain signatures (Pfam PF03645, CDD cd21459) and the human Tctex strands at residues 4-11, 89-99, 104-113 and 119-126, but ends two residues after strand 119-126 and so lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and it adds an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension. In the human DYNLT1-DYNLT2B heterodimer crystal structure (PDB 8RGI), most DYNLT2B residues within 4 angstroms of DYNLT1 lie in the retained strands 89-112, and only residues 137, 139 and 140 of the missing strand contact DYNLT1, but that strand belongs to the core beta-sheet of the fold. Whether this truncated product folds, heterodimerizes with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and binds WDR60, on which the cilium-assembly role, a downstream consequence of dynein-2 function depends, is untested, so the prediction is UNC for this product although the term is correct and novel for the gene.
Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:25830415: "Tctex1d2 and Wdr60 localize to the base of the cilium and their depletion causes defects in ciliogenesis."
  • PMID:39827215: "Tctex1d2-/- mice generated in this study exhibited male infertility due to flagellar dysplasia, and the axonemal structures were disrupted inside the flagella."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt: "PANTHER; PTHR21255:SF7; DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN TCTEX-TYPE PROTEIN 2B; 1."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-bioinformatics/RESULTS.md: "The horse sequence A0A9L0SWY1 (245 residues) aligns to human Q8WW35 (142 residues) with 91.41% identity across 128 paired residues."
GO:0005813 centrosome GO_CC
UNC β€” Uncertain Review score: 1/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
Review rationale: The horse protein is a one-to-one orthologue of human DYNLT2B in the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, with 91% identity over the aligned Tctex domain. Human TCTEX1D2 colocalizes with WDR60 at interphase microtubule-organizing centers (centrosomes), dependent on WDR60 and microtubules; the human and mouse reviews keep centrosome as a supported non-core location consistent with dynein-2 recruitment near the basal body. The gene-level evidence is a single human imaging study. The horse gene has no GOA annotation on any product, so the term is novel for it. Product-level assessment: ProtNLM2 was given A0A9L0SWY1, which keeps the Tctex domain signatures (Pfam PF03645, CDD cd21459) and the human Tctex strands at residues 4-11, 89-99, 104-113 and 119-126, but ends two residues after strand 119-126 and so lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and it adds an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension. In the human DYNLT1-DYNLT2B heterodimer crystal structure (PDB 8RGI), most DYNLT2B residues within 4 angstroms of DYNLT1 lie in the retained strands 89-112, and only residues 137, 139 and 140 of the missing strand contact DYNLT1, but that strand belongs to the core beta-sheet of the fold. Whether this truncated product folds, heterodimerizes with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and binds WDR60, on which centrosomal localization, which in human cells depends on WDR60 depends, is untested, so the prediction is UNC for this product although the term is correct and novel for the gene.
Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:25830415: "Tctex1d2 associates with Wdr34, Wdr60, and other subunits of Dync1 and Dync2 and colocalizes with Wdr60 to microtubule organizing centers during interphase, the mitotic spindle poles during cell division, and the base of the cilium in ciliated cells."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt: "PANTHER; PTHR21255:SF7; DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN TCTEX-TYPE PROTEIN 2B; 1."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-bioinformatics/RESULTS.md: "The horse sequence A0A9L0SWY1 (245 residues) aligns to human Q8WW35 (142 residues) with 91.41% identity across 128 paired residues."
GO:0005930 axoneme GO_CC
UNC β€” Uncertain Review score: 1/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
Review rationale: The horse protein is a one-to-one orthologue of human DYNLT2B in the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, with 91% identity over the aligned Tctex domain. Mouse sperm fractionation recovers endogenous tagged TCTEX1D2 in the axonemal fraction and the authors conclude it is an axoneme component; tagged human TCTEX1D2 also localizes to the ciliary axoneme when overexpressed. The mouse review accepts axoneme as a core location for the flagellar role. Transfer within SF7 is justified, though the strongest evidence is from sperm flagella. The horse gene has no GOA annotation on any product, so the term is novel for it. Product-level assessment: ProtNLM2 was given A0A9L0SWY1, which keeps the Tctex domain signatures (Pfam PF03645, CDD cd21459) and the human Tctex strands at residues 4-11, 89-99, 104-113 and 119-126, but ends two residues after strand 119-126 and so lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and it adds an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension. In the human DYNLT1-DYNLT2B heterodimer crystal structure (PDB 8RGI), most DYNLT2B residues within 4 angstroms of DYNLT1 lie in the retained strands 89-112, and only residues 137, 139 and 140 of the missing strand contact DYNLT1, but that strand belongs to the core beta-sheet of the fold. Whether this truncated product folds, heterodimerizes with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and binds WDR60, on which axonemal localization as a dynein-2 component depends, is untested, so the prediction is UNC for this product although the term is correct and novel for the gene.
Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:39827215: "These results showed that TCTEX1D2 is an axoneme component in mice."
  • PMID:25830415: "overexpression of LAP(EGFP-TEV-S-Peptide)-Tctex1d2 led to the localization of LAP-Tctex1d2 to the ciliary axoneme (Fig. 3I), similar to what had been observed with Wdr60 overexpression.4"
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt: "PANTHER; PTHR21255:SF7; DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN TCTEX-TYPE PROTEIN 2B; 1."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-bioinformatics/RESULTS.md: "The horse sequence A0A9L0SWY1 (245 residues) aligns to human Q8WW35 (142 residues) with 91.41% identity across 128 paired residues."
GO:0031021 interphase microtubule organizing center GO_CC
UNC β€” Uncertain Review score: 1/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
Review rationale: The horse protein is a one-to-one orthologue of human DYNLT2B in the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, with 91% identity over the aligned Tctex domain. Human TCTEX1D2 colocalizes with WDR60 at microtubule-organizing centers during interphase; the human and mouse reviews keep this as a supported non-core location. The gene-level evidence is a single human imaging study. The horse gene has no GOA annotation on any product, so the term is novel for it. Product-level assessment: ProtNLM2 was given A0A9L0SWY1, which keeps the Tctex domain signatures (Pfam PF03645, CDD cd21459) and the human Tctex strands at residues 4-11, 89-99, 104-113 and 119-126, but ends two residues after strand 119-126 and so lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and it adds an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension. In the human DYNLT1-DYNLT2B heterodimer crystal structure (PDB 8RGI), most DYNLT2B residues within 4 angstroms of DYNLT1 lie in the retained strands 89-112, and only residues 137, 139 and 140 of the missing strand contact DYNLT1, but that strand belongs to the core beta-sheet of the fold. Whether this truncated product folds, heterodimerizes with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and binds WDR60, on which MTOC localization, which in human cells depends on WDR60 depends, is untested, so the prediction is UNC for this product although the term is correct and novel for the gene.
Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:25830415: "Tctex1d2 associates with Wdr34, Wdr60, and other subunits of Dync1 and Dync2 and colocalizes with Wdr60 to microtubule organizing centers during interphase, the mitotic spindle poles during cell division, and the base of the cilium in ciliated cells."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-uniprot.txt: "PANTHER; PTHR21255:SF7; DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN TCTEX-TYPE PROTEIN 2B; 1."
  • file:HORSE/DYNLT2B/DYNLT2B-bioinformatics/RESULTS.md: "The horse sequence A0A9L0SWY1 (245 residues) aligns to human Q8WW35 (142 residues) with 91.41% identity across 128 paired residues."
GO:1902017 regulation of cilium assembly GO_BP
UNC β€” Uncertain Review score: 1/2
Prediction method: ProtNLM2 Β· Version: UniProt API snapshot 2026-09-08
Review rationale: The horse protein is a one-to-one orthologue of human DYNLT2B in the DYNLT2B-specific PANTHER subfamily PTHR21255:SF7, with 91% identity over the aligned Tctex domain. TCTEX1D2 depletion in human cells increases cilia length, a typical retrograde IFT phenotype, which supports a role in controlling cilium assembly; the human and mouse reviews keep this term as non-core because it is a downstream consequence of the protein's dynein-2 subunit role rather than a dedicated regulatory activity. The term is of limited informativeness. The horse gene has no GOA annotation on any product, so the term is novel for it. Product-level assessment: ProtNLM2 was given A0A9L0SWY1, which keeps the Tctex domain signatures (Pfam PF03645, CDD cd21459) and the human Tctex strands at residues 4-11, 89-99, 104-113 and 119-126, but ends two residues after strand 119-126 and so lacks the C-terminal Tctex beta-strand (human residues 128-140), and it adds an approximately 117-residue disordered N-terminal extension. In the human DYNLT1-DYNLT2B heterodimer crystal structure (PDB 8RGI), most DYNLT2B residues within 4 angstroms of DYNLT1 lie in the retained strands 89-112, and only residues 137, 139 and 140 of the missing strand contact DYNLT1, but that strand belongs to the core beta-sheet of the fold. Whether this truncated product folds, heterodimerizes with DYNLT1 or DYNLT3 and binds WDR60, on which the cilium-length phenotype, a downstream consequence of dynein-2 function depends, is untested, so the prediction is UNC for this product although the term is correct and novel for the gene.
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