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ArticleNature2007

The molecular architecture of the nuclear pore complex.

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 560 papers.

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560citing papers in PubMed
28.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

560 citing papers in PubMed, 1,070 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Frank AlberDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, Mission Bay QB3, 1700 4th Street, Suite 503B, 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
Andrej Sali
Michael P Rout
QB3 · USRockefeller University · US

Funding

NEW TOOLS FOR EXPLORING THE DYNAMIC INTERACTOME(RMI)U54RR022220 · NCRR · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI ROUT, MICHAEL P · 2005 to 2011
$19.3M
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 GM062427
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are proteinaceous assemblies of approximately 50 MDa that selectively transport cargoes across the nuclear envelope. To determine the molecular architecture of the yeast NPC, we collected a diverse set of biophysical and proteomic data, and developed a method for using these data to localize the NPC's 456 constituent proteins (see the accompanying paper). Our structure reveals that half of the NPC is made up of a core scaffold, which is structurally analogous to vesicle-coating complexes. This scaffold forms an interlaced network that coats the entire curved surface of the nuclear envelope membrane within which the NPC is embedded. The selective barrier for transport is formed by large numbers of proteins with disordered regions that line the inner face of the scaffold. The NPC consists of only a few structural modules that resemble each other in terms of the configuration of their homologous constituents, the most striking of these being a 16-fold repetition of 'columns'. These findings provide clues to the evolutionary origins of the NPC.

Indexed as

Active Transport, Cell NucleusBinding SitesCell NucleusCytoplasmEvolution, MolecularMacromolecular SubstancesNuclear EnvelopeNuclear PoreNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsProtein ConformationSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsMacromolecular SubstancesNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID18046406
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