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ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2018

Deciphering the "Fuzzy" Interaction of FG Nucleoporins and Transport Factors Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering.

Samuel Sparks, Deniz B Temel, Michael P Rout, David Cowburn

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Samuel SparksDepartments of Biochemistry and of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Deniz B TemelDepartments of Biochemistry and of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Michael P RoutLaboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
David CowburnDepartments of Biochemistry and of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. Electronic address: cowburn@cowburnlab.org.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USRockefeller University · US

Funding

TR&D Project 4. The Imaging Stage: Multiscale Spatiotemporal Modeling of Macromolecular Systems in Cellular NeighborhoodsP41GM109824 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI ROUT, MICHAEL P · 2014 to 2023
$18.8M
TrainingP41GM103712 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FAEDER, JAMES · 2012 to 2021
$16.3M
Structure-Function Mapping of the Nuclear Pore Complex-RenewalR01GM112108 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI JOHN D. AITCHISON, MICHAEL P ROUT · 2015 to 2026
$9.1M
The dynamic mechanism of nuclear transport visualized at the atomic scaleR01GM117212 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI COWBURN, DAVID · 2016 to 2023
$3.7M
Console and probe upgrade for 600 MHz NMRS10OD016305 · OD · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI COWBURN, DAVID · 2014 to 2014
$595k
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103712NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM109824NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM112108NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117212NIH HHS S10 OD016305
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The largely intrinsically disordered phenylalanine-glycine-rich nucleoporins (FG Nups) underline a selectivity mechanism that enables the rapid translocation of transport factors (TFs) through the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). Conflicting models of NPC transport have assumed that FG Nups undergo different conformational transitions upon interacting with TFs. To selectively characterize conformational changes in FG Nups induced by TFs we performed small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) with contrast matching. Conformational-ensembles derived from SANS data indicated an increase in the overall size of FG Nups is associated with TF interaction. Moreover, the organization of the FG motif in the interacting state is consistent with prior experimental analyses defining that FG motifs undergo conformational restriction upon interacting with TFs. These results provide structural insights into a highly dynamic interaction and illustrate how functional disorder imparts rapid and selective FG Nup-TF interactions.

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Models, MolecularNeutron DiffractionNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsNucleocytoplasmic Transport ProteinsProtein BindingProtein ConformationScattering, Small AngleNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsNucleocytoplasmic Transport Proteinscontrast matchingensemble analysisFG nucleoporinsintrinsically disordered proteinsKap95NTF2nuclear pore complexnuclear transportsmall-angle neutron scatteringtransport factors

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PMID29429880
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