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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013

Choreography of importin-α/CAS complex assembly and disassembly at nuclear pores.

Changxia Sun, Guo Fu, Danguole Ciziene, Murray Stewart, Siegfried M Musser

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Changxia SunDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Guo Fu
Danguole Ciziene
Murray Stewart
Siegfried M Musser

Funding

Single Molecule Analysis of Bacterial Protein TransportR01GM065534 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR · PI MUSSER, SIEGFRIED M · 2003 to 2010
$1.6M
Mechanisms of Nucleocytoplasmic TransportR01GM084062 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR · PI MUSSER, SIEGFRIED M · 2009 to 2012
$1.4M
Medical Research Council MC_U105178939NIGMS NIH HHS GM065534NIGMS NIH HHS GM084062NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM065534NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084062Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) mediate the exchange of macromolecules between the cytoplasm and the nucleoplasm. Soluble nuclear transport receptors bind signal-dependent cargos to form transport complexes that diffuse through the NPC and are then disassembled. Although transport receptors enable the NPC's permeability barrier to be overcome, directionality is established by complex assembly and disassembly. Here, we delineate the choreography of importin-α/CAS complex assembly and disassembly in permeabilized cells, using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer and particle tracking. Monitoring interaction sequences in intact NPCs ensures spatiotemporal preservation of structures and interactions critical for activity in vivo. We show that key interactions between components are reversible, multiple outcomes are often possible, and the assembly and disassembly of complexes are precisely controlled to occur at the appropriate place and time. Importin-α mutants that impair interactions during nuclear import were used together with cytoplasmic Ran GTPase-activating factors to demonstrate that importin-α/CAS complexes form in the nuclear basket region, at the termination of protein import, and disassembly of importin-α/CAS complexes after export occurs in the cytoplasmic filament region of the NPC. Mathematical models derived from our data emphasize the intimate connection between transport and the coordinated assembly and disassembly of importin-α/CAS complexes for generating productive transport cycles.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalActive Transport, Cell Nucleusalpha KaryopherinsCellular Apoptosis Susceptibility ProteinElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMultiprotein ComplexesNuclear PoreProtein Bindingalpha KaryopherinsCellular Apoptosis Susceptibility ProteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMultiprotein Complexes

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PMID23569239
PMCPMC3637723

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