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ReviewFEBS letters2018

Mechanisms of nuclear pore complex assembly - two different ways of building one molecular machine.

Shotaro Otsuka, Jan Ellenberg

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Review in FEBS letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
74citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

74 citing papers in PubMed, 127 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Structure, function and assembly of nuclear pore complexes.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  8. Integrative spatiotemporal modeling of biomolecular processes: Application to the assembly of the nuclear pore complex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Molecular Crowing in Nuclear Pore.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2025
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14 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shotaro OtsukaCell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3976-0843
Jan EllenbergCell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5909-701X
European Molecular Biology Laboratory · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) mediates all macromolecular transport across the nuclear envelope. In higher eukaryotes that have an open mitosis, NPCs assemble at two points in the cell cycle: during nuclear assembly in late mitosis and during nuclear growth in interphase. How the NPC, the largest nonpolymeric protein complex in eukaryotic cells, self-assembles inside cells remained unclear. Recent studies have started to uncover the assembly process, and evidence has been accumulating that postmitotic and interphase NPC assembly use fundamentally different mechanisms; the duration, structural intermediates, and regulation by molecular players are different and different types of membrane deformation are involved. In this Review, we summarize the current understanding of these two modes of NPC assembly and discuss the structural and regulatory steps that might drive the assembly processes. We furthermore integrate understanding of NPC assembly with the mechanisms for rapid nuclear growth in embryos and, finally, speculate on the evolutionary origin of the NPC implied by the presence of two distinct assembly mechanisms.

Indexed as

AnimalsEvolution, MolecularHumansMitosisNuclear EnvelopeNuclear PoreNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsNuclear Pore Complex Proteinscell cyclemitosisnuclear assembly

Identifiers

PMID29119545
PMCPMC6220763
OpenAlexW2767782200

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