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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

Nuclear size and physical properties of the nucleoplasm are determined by colloid osmotic pressure at the nuclear envelope.

Joël Lemière, Zhidong Tan, Fred Chang

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Joël LemièreDepartment of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9017-1959
Zhidong TanDepartment of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Fred ChangDepartment of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8907-3286

Funding

Mechanics of cell growth and divisionR35GM141796 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Fred Chang · 2021 to 2026
$3.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM141796
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The size of the nucleus scales with cell size, suggesting a universal scaling rule. Yet the biophysical determinants of nuclear size and the significance and consequences of altered nuclear-to-cell (N/C) ratios, which are observed across diverse pathological states and cell-fate transitions, remain poorly understood. Recent theoretical models propose that nuclear size arises from a balance of colloid osmotic pressures generated by macromolecules in the nucleoplasm and cytoplasm. Here we demonstrate that altering this osmotic balance through massive overexpression of an exogenous protein targeted to either the nucleoplasm or cytoplasm produces predictable changes in the N/C ratio in

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PMID42538977
PMCPMC13419497

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