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ArticleNucleus (Austin, Tex.)

Regulation of nuclear envelope permeability in cell death and survival.

Christine Strasser, Patricia Grote, Karin Schäuble, Magdalena Ganz, Elisa Ferrando-May

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Article in Nucleus (Austin, Tex.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christine StrasserBioimaging Center, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Patricia Grote
Karin Schäuble
Magdalena Ganz
Elisa Ferrando-May
University of Konstanz · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) mediates macromolecular exchange between nucleus and cytoplasm. It is a regulated channel whose functional properties are modulated in response to the physiological status of the cell. Identifying the factors responsible for regulating NPC activity is crucial to understand how intracellular signaling cues are integrated at the level of this channel to control nucleocytoplasmic trafficking. For proteins lacking active translocation signals the NPC acts as a molecular sieve limiting passage across the nuclear envelope (NE) to proteins with a MW below ~40 kD. Here, we investigate how this permeability barrier is altered in paradigms of cell death and cell survival, i.e., apoptosis induction via staurosporine, and enhanced viability via overexpression of Bcl-2. We monitor dynamic changes of the NPC's size-exclusion limit for passive diffusion by confocal time-lapse microscopy of cells undergoing apoptosis, and use different diffusion markers to determine how Bcl-2 expression affects steady-state NE permeability. We show that staurosporine triggers an immediate and gradual leakiness of the NE preceding the appearance of apoptotic hallmarks. Bcl-2 expression leads to a constitutive increase in NE permeability, and its localization at the NE is sufficient for the effect, evincing a functional role for Bcl-2 at the nuclear membrane. In both settings, NPC leakiness correlates with reduced Ca²⁺ in internal stores, as demonstrated by fluorometric measurements of ER/NE Ca²⁺ levels. By comparing two cellular models with opposite outcome these data pinpoint ER/NE Ca²⁺ as a general and physiologically relevant regulator of the permeability barrier function of the NPC.

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Active Transport, Cell NucleusApoptosisCalciumCell Line, TumorCell NucleusCell SurvivalHeLa CellsHumansMicroscopy, ConfocalNuclear EnvelopeNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2StaurosporineTNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing LigandCalciumNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsNUP153 protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2StaurosporineTNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand

Identifiers

PMID22929227
PMCPMC3515537
OpenAlexW1971142666

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