The nuclear pore complex and nuclear transport

SR Wente, MP Rout - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Internal membrane bound structures sequester all genetic material in eukaryotic cells. The
most prominent of these structures is the nucleus, which is bounded by a double membrane …

The nuclear pore complex: bridging nuclear transport and gene regulation

C Strambio-De-Castillia, M Niepel… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2010 - nature.com
Although the nuclear pore complex (NPC) is best known for its primary function as the key
regulator of molecular traffic between the cytoplasm and the nucleus, a growing body of …

Components and regulation of nuclear transport processes

B Cautain, R Hill, N de Pedro, W Link - The FEBS journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The spatial separation of DNA replication and gene transcription in the nucleus and protein
translation in the cytoplasm is a uniform principle of eukaryotic cells. This …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear import by karyopherin-βs: recognition and inhibition

YM Chook, KE Süel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2011 - Elsevier
Proteins in the karyopherin-β family mediate the majority of macromolecular transport
between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Eleven of the 19 known human karyopherin-βs and …

Structural basis for leucine-rich nuclear export signal recognition by CRM1

X Dong, A Biswas, KE Süel, LK Jackson, R Martinez… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
CRM1 (also known as XPO1 and exportin 1) mediates nuclear export of hundreds of
proteins through the recognition of the leucine-rich nuclear export signal (LR-NES). Here we …

Nuclear localization signals for four distinct karyopherin-β nuclear import systems

M Soniat, YM Chook - Biochemical Journal, 2015 - portlandpress.com
The Karyopherin-β family of proteins mediates nuclear transport of macromolecules. Nuclear
versus cytoplasmic localization of proteins is often suggested by the presence of NLSs …

Importins and exportins as therapeutic targets in cancer

A Mahipal, M Malafa - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2016 - Elsevier
The nuclear transport proteins, importins and exportins (karyopherin-β proteins), may play
an important role in cancer by transporting key mediators of oncogenesis across the nuclear …

Recognition of nuclear targeting signals by Karyopherin-β proteins

D Xu, A Farmer, YM Chook - Current opinion in structural biology, 2010 - Elsevier
The Karyopherin-β family of nuclear transport factors mediates the majority of
nucleocytoplasmic transport. Although each of the 19 Karyopherin-βs transports unique sets …

LocNES: a computational tool for locating classical NESs in CRM1 cargo proteins

D Xu, K Marquis, J Pei, SC Fu, T Cağatay… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Classical nuclear export signals (NESs) are short cognate peptides that direct
proteins out of the nucleus via the CRM1-mediated export pathway. CRM1 regulates the …

NESdb: a database of NES-containing CRM1 cargoes

D Xu, NV Grishin, YM Chook - Molecular biology of the cell, 2012 - Am Soc Cell Biol
The leucine-rich nuclear export signal (NES) is the only known class of targeting signal that
directs macromolecules out of the cell nucleus. NESs are short stretches of 8–15 amino …