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ArticleNature2007

Determining the architectures of macromolecular assemblies.

Frank Alber, Svetlana Dokudovskaya, Liesbeth M Veenhoff, Wenzhu Zhang, Julia Kipper, Damien Devos, Adisetyantari Suprapto, Orit Karni-Schmidt, Rosemary Williams, Brian T Chait and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 297 papers.

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297citing papers in PubMed
18.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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297 citing papers in PubMed, 537 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Frank AlberDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, Byers Hall, Suite 503B, 1700 4th Street, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158-2330, USA.
Svetlana Dokudovskaya
Liesbeth M Veenhoff
Wenzhu Zhang
Julia Kipper
Damien Devos
Adisetyantari Suprapto
Orit Karni-Schmidt
Rosemary Williams
Brian T Chait
Michael P Rout
Andrej Sali
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) · DEQB3 · USRockefeller University · USEuropean Molecular Biology Organization · DEInstitut Jacques Monod · FROffice of Technology Transfer · USUniversity of Groningen · NL

Funding

NEW TOOLS FOR EXPLORING THE DYNAMIC INTERACTOME(RMI)U54RR022220 · NCRR · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI ROUT, MICHAEL P · 2005 to 2011
$19.3M
IMP: Software for Hybrid Determination of Macromolecular Assembly StructuresR01GM083960 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI SALI, ANDREJ · 2008 to 2024
$5.2M
DISSECTING THE MOLECULAR MACHINERY OF NUCLEAR TRANSPORTR01GM062427 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI ROUT, MICHAEL P · 2001 to 2010
$2.7M
NCRR NIH HHS U54 RR022220NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM062427NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM083960
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To understand the workings of a living cell, we need to know the architectures of its macromolecular assemblies. Here we show how proteomic data can be used to determine such structures. The process involves the collection of sufficient and diverse high-quality data, translation of these data into spatial restraints, and an optimization that uses the restraints to generate an ensemble of structures consistent with the data. Analysis of the ensemble produces a detailed architectural map of the assembly. We developed our approach on a challenging model system, the nuclear pore complex (NPC). The NPC acts as a dynamic barrier, controlling access to and from the nucleus, and in yeast is a 50 MDa assembly of 456 proteins. The resulting structure, presented in an accompanying paper, reveals the configuration of the proteins in the NPC, providing insights into its evolution and architectural principles. The present approach should be applicable to many other macromolecular assemblies.

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Cell SurvivalComputational BiologyMacromolecular SubstancesMicroscopy, ImmunoelectronModels, BiologicalNuclear PoreNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsProtein BindingProteomicsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSensitivity and SpecificityUncertaintyMacromolecular SubstancesNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsNUP84 protein, S cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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