Journal
TRAFFIC
Volume 1, Issue 6, Pages 448-456Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0854.2000.010602.x
Keywords
importin; interactions; NTF2; nuclear transport factors; nucleocytoplasmic transport; nucleoporin; Ran
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Trafficking of macromolecules between nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments takes place through the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) of the nuclear envelope. Nuclear trafficking involves a complex series of interactions between cargo, soluble transport factors (carriers) and nuclear pore proteins (nucleoporins) that are orchestrated by the Ras-family GTPase Ran. The primary role of Ran is probably to establish directionality and to sort molecules to be transported by controlling the interaction between carriers and cargoes, so that they bind in one compartment but dissociate in the other. Translocation of carriers and cargo-carrier complexes through NPCs requires interactions between the carriers and nucleoporins that contain distinctive tandem sequence repeats based on cores rich in glycine and phenylalanine residues that are separated by hydrophilic linkers. Much recent work has focused on these interactions and, in particular. their specificity, regulation and function. Evidence is accumulating that carriers move through the NPC by distinct but overlapping routes using specific subsets of nucleoporins.
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