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ArticleBiophysical journal2011

Single molecule study of the intrinsically disordered FG-repeat nucleoporin 153.

Sigrid Milles, Edward A Lemke

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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62 citing papers in PubMed, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sigrid MillesEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.
Edward A Lemke
European Molecular Biology Laboratory · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleoporins (Nups), which are intrinsically disordered, form a selectivity filter inside the nuclear pore complex, taking a central role in the vital nucleocytoplasmic transport mechanism. These Nups display a complex and nonrandom amino-acid architecture of phenylalanine glycine (FG)-repeat clusters and intra-FG linkers. How such heterogeneous sequence composition relates to function and could give rise to a transport mechanism is still unclear. Here we describe a combined chemical biology and single-molecule fluorescence approach to study the large human Nup153 FG-domain. In order to obtain insights into the properties of this domain beyond the average behavior, we probed the end-to-end distance (R(E)) of several ∼50-residues long FG-repeat clusters in the context of the whole protein domain. Despite the sequence heterogeneity of these FG-clusters, we detected a reoccurring and consistent compaction from a relaxed coil behavior under denaturing conditions (R(E)/R(E,RC) = 0.99 ± 0.15 with R(E,RC) corresponding to ideal relaxed coil behavior) to a collapsed state under native conditions (R(E)/R(E,RC) = 0.79 ± 0.09). We then analyzed the properties of this protein on the supramolecular level, and determined that this human FG-domain was in fact able to form a hydrogel with physiological permeability barrier properties.

Indexed as

Repetitive Sequences, Amino AcidActive Transport, Cell NucleusCell NucleusHumansNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsPeptide FragmentsPorosityProtein DenaturationProtein Structure, TertiarySpectrometry, FluorescenceNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsNUP153 protein, humanPeptide Fragments

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PMID21961597
PMCPMC3183753
OpenAlexW1972207312

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