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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014

Structural basis for nuclear import of splicing factors by human Transportin 3.

Goedele N Maertens, Nicola J Cook, Weifeng Wang, Stephen Hare, Saumya Shree Gupta, Ilker Öztop, KyeongEun Lee, Valerie E Pye, Ophélie Cosnefroy, Ambrosius P Snijders and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers.

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109citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

109 citing papers in PubMed, 154 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Goedele N MaertensDivision of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Campus, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom.
Nicola J Cook
Weifeng Wang
Stephen Hare
Saumya Shree Gupta
Ilker Öztop
KyeongEun Lee
Valerie E Pye
Ophélie Cosnefroy
Ambrosius P Snijders
Vineet N KewalRamani
Ariberto Fassati
Alan Engelman
Peter Cherepanov
Cancer Research UK · GBImperial College London · GBDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USNational Cancer Institute · USUniversity College London · GB

Funding

X-Ray Core P50GM082251 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CALERO, GUILLERMO ALBERTO · 2007 to 2018
$48.1M
The role of CPSF6 in HIV-1 infectionZIABC010487 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI KEWALRAMANI, VINEET N · 2009 to 2025
$13.0M
Nuclear Localization of HIV-1 Preintegration ComplexesR01AI052014 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI ENGELMAN, ALAN N. · 2003 to 2025
$11.4M
Cancer Research UK 15272Intramural NIH HHSMedical Research Council G0501446Medical Research Council G0900950Medical Research Council G9721629NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI052014NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI052014-11NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM082251NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM082251-06
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transportin 3 (Tnpo3, Transportin-SR2) is implicated in nuclear import of splicing factors and HIV-1 replication. Herein, we show that the majority of cellular Tnpo3 binding partners contain arginine-serine (RS) repeat domains and present crystal structures of human Tnpo3 in its free as well as GTPase Ran- and alternative splicing factor/splicing factor 2 (ASF/SF2)-bound forms. The flexible β-karyopherin fold of Tnpo3 embraces the RNA recognition motif and RS domains of the cargo. A constellation of charged residues on and around the arginine-rich helix of Tnpo3 HEAT repeat 15 engage the phosphorylated RS domain and are critical for the recognition and nuclear import of ASF/SF2. Mutations in the same region of Tnpo3 impair its interaction with the cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor 6 (CPSF6) and its ability to support HIV-1 replication. Steric incompatibility of the RS domain and RanGTP engagement by Tnpo3 provides the mechanism for cargo release in the nucleus. Our results elucidate the structural bases for nuclear import of splicing factors and the Tnpo3-CPSF6 nexus in HIV-1 biology.

Indexed as

Models, MolecularProtein ConformationActive Transport, Cell Nucleusbeta KaryopherinsBlotting, WesternCell NucleusChromatography, GelChromatography, Ion ExchangeCrystallography, X-RayHEK293 CellsHIV-1HumansImmunoprecipitationmRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation FactorsNuclear ProteinsOligonucleotidesbeta Karyopherinscleavage factor Im, humanmRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation FactorsNuclear ProteinsOligonucleotidesTNPO3 protein, humanhost factorimportinSR proteinTransportin-SR

Identifiers

PMID24449914
PMCPMC3932936
OpenAlexW2092486133

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