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ArticleScientific reports2021

Distinct mutations in importin-β family nucleocytoplasmic transport receptors transportin-SR and importin-13 affect specific cargo binding.

Makoto Kimura, Kenichiro Imai, Yuriko Morinaka, Yoshiko Hosono-Sakuma, Paul Horton, Naoko Imamoto

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Makoto Kimura *Cellular Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan. makimura@riken.jp.
Kenichiro Imai *Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan. kenichiro.imai@aist.go.jp.
Yuriko MorinakaCellular Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
Yoshiko Hosono-SakumaCellular Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
Paul HortonDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan.
Naoko ImamotoCellular Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan. nimamoto@riken.jp.
Pioneer (Japan) · JPRIKEN · JPNational Cheng Kung University · TWNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Importin-(Imp)β family nucleocytoplasmic transport receptors (NTRs) are supposed to bind to their cargoes through interaction between a confined interface on an NTR and a nuclear localization or export signal (NLS/NES) on a cargo. Although consensus NLS/NES sequence motifs have been defined for cargoes of some NTRs, many experimentally identified cargoes of those NTRs lack those motifs, and consensus NLSs/NESs have been reported for only a few NTRs. Crystal structures of NTR-cargo complexes have exemplified 3D structure-dependent binding of cargoes lacking a consensus NLS/NES to different sites on an NTR. Since only a limited number of NTR-cargo interactions have been studied, whether most cargoes lacking a consensus NLS/NES bind to the same confined interface or to various sites on an NTR is still unclear. Addressing this issue, we generated four mutants of transportin-(Trn)SR, of which many cargoes lack a consensus NLS, and eight mutants of Imp13, where no consensus NLS has been defined, and we analyzed their binding to as many as 40 cargo candidates that we previously identified by a nuclear import reaction-based method. The cargoes bind differently to the NTR mutants, suggesting that positions on an NTR contribute differently to the binding of respective cargoes.

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Active Transport, Cell Nucleusbeta KaryopherinsKaryopherinsMutationNuclear Localization SignalsProtein BindingCell NucleusHumansNuclear Export Signalsbeta KaryopherinsIPO13 protein, humanKaryopherinsNuclear Export SignalsNuclear Localization Signals

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PMID34341383
PMCPMC8329185
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