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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 183, Issue 1, Pages 77-86Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200806173
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- National Institutes of Health [1 R01 GM071329-01]
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All molecular traffic between nucleus and cytoplasm occurs via the nuclear pore complex (NPC) within the nuclear envelope. In this study we analyzed the interactions of the nuclear transport receptors kap alpha 2, kap beta 1, kap beta 1 Delta N44, and kap Beta 2, and the model transport substrate, BSA-NLS, with NPCs to determine binding sites and kinetics using single-molecule microscopy in living cells. Recombinant transport receptors and BSA-NLS were fluorescently labeled by AlexaFluor 488, and microinjected into the cytoplasm of living HeLa cells expressing POM121-GFP as a nuclear pore marker. After bleaching the dominant GFP fluorescence the interactions of the microinjected molecules could be studied using video microscopy with a time resolution of 5 ms, achieving a colocalization precision of 30 nm. These measurements allowed de. ning the interaction sites with the NPCs with an unprecedented precision, and the comparison of the interaction kinetics with previous in vitro measurements revealed new insights into the translocation mechanism.
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