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ArticleMolecular biology of the cell2015

Size-dependent leak of soluble and membrane proteins through the yeast nuclear pore complex.

Petra Popken, Ali Ghavami, Patrick R Onck, Bert Poolman, Liesbeth M Veenhoff

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Article in Molecular biology of the cell, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers.

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90citing papers in PubMed
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Who cites it

90 citing papers in PubMed, 159 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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Petra PopkenEuropean Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands.
Ali GhavamiZernike Institute for Advanced Materials and.
Patrick R OnckZernike Institute for Advanced Materials and.
Bert PoolmanZernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands.
Liesbeth M VeenhoffEuropean Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands l.m.veenhoff@rug.nl.
University Medical Center Groningen · NLUniversity of Groningen · NL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) allow selective import and export while forming a barrier for untargeted proteins. Using fluorescence microscopy, we measured in vivo the permeability of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae NPC for multidomain proteins of different sizes and found that soluble proteins of 150 kDa and membrane proteins with an extralumenal domain of 90 kDa were still partly localized in the nucleus on a time scale of hours. The NPCs thus form only a weak barrier for the majority of yeast proteins, given their monomeric size. Using FGΔ-mutant strains, we showed that specific combinations of Nups, especially with Nup100, but not the total mass of FG-nups per pore, were important for forming the barrier. Models of the disordered phase of wild-type and mutant NPCs were generated using a one bead per amino acid molecular dynamics model. The permeability measurements correlated with the density predictions from coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations in the center of the NPC. The combined in vivo and computational approach provides a framework for elucidating the structural and functional properties of the permeability barrier of nuclear pore complexes.

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DiffusionMembrane ProteinsMicroscopy, FluorescenceMolecular Dynamics SimulationNuclear PoreProtein TransportSaccharomyces cerevisiaeMembrane Proteins

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PMID25631821
PMCPMC4454183
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