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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 174, Issue 7, Pages 951-961Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200605053
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM065534, GM065534] Funding Source: Medline
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Although many components and reaction steps necessary for bidirectional transport across the nuclear envelope (NE) have been characterized, the mechanism and control of cargo migration through nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) remain poorly understood. Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy was used to track the movement of cargos before, during, and after their interactions with NPCs. At low importin beta concentrations, about half of the signal-dependent cargos that interacted with an NPC were translocated across the NE, indicating a nuclear import efficiency of similar to 50%. At high importin beta concentrations, the import efficiency increased to similar to 80% and the transit speed increased approximately sevenfold. The transit speed and import efficiency of a signal-independent cargo was also increased by high importin beta concentrations. These results demonstrate that maximum nucleocytoplasmic transport velocities can be modulated by at least similar to 10-fold by the importin beta concentration and therefore suggest a potential mechanism for regulating the speed of cargo traffic across the NE.
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