“…Interestingly, multiple lines of research have revealed that autophagy (Tang et al ., 2013), the ubiquitin-proteasome system (Kasahara et al ., 2014), actin remodeling factors such as LIM kinase 2 (LIMK2), testicular protein kinase (TESK1) (Kim et al ., 2015b), and serine/threonine kinases such as intestinal cell kinase (ICK) (Chaya et al ., 2014; Moon et al ., 2014) are critical for the maintenance and function of primary cilia. More recently, among these various regulators of ciliogenesis or ciliary function, interest in the bidirectional interaction between primary cilia and autophagy is increasing (Pampliega and Cuervo, 2016; Wiegering et al ., 2019). Indeed, it has been reported that cells with defective cilia show reduced autophagy (Pampliega et al ., 2013) and dysfunction of ICK known as ciliary protein leads to perturbation of ciliary signaling and autophagy (Tong et al ., 2017), which suggests that there is a close relationship between primary cilia and autophagy.…”