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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 82, Issue 7, Pages 351-359Publisher
URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1078/0171-9335-00324
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importin-beta; nuclear envelope; Ran; microtubulcs; Drosophila mutant
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The P446L mutant Drosophila importin-beta (P446L-imp-beta) has been reported to prohibit - in dominant negative fashion nuclear envelope (NE) assembly. Along elucidating the mode of action of P446L-imp-beta we studied in vitro NE assembly on Sepharose beads. While Drosophila embryo extracts support NE assembly over Sepharose beads coated with Ran, NE assembly does not take place in extracts supplied with exogenous P446L-imp-beta. A NE also forms over importin-pcoated beads. Surprisingly, when immobilized to Sepharose beads P446L-imp-beta as efficiently recruits NE vesicles as normal importin-beta. The discrepancy in behavior of cytoplasmic and bead-bound P446L-imp-beta appears to be related to icreased - as compared to normal importin-beta - microtubule (NIT) binding ability of P446L-imp-beta. While wild-type importin-beta is able to bind MTs; and the binding decreases upon RanGTP interaction, P446L-imp-beta cannot be removed from the MTs by RanGTP. P446L-imp-beta, like normal importin-beta, binds some types of the nucleoporins that have been known to be required for NE assembly at the end of mitosis. It appears that the inhibitory effect of P446L-imp-beta on NE assembly is caused by sequestering some of the nucleoporins required for NE assembly to the MTs.
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