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COLD SPRING HARBOR PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041264
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- National Institutes of Health [R01-GM111461, R01-GM117360]
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This study overcame the structural challenges of the nuclear pore complex (NPC) and provided a near-atomic composite structure of the human NPC, which is a significant milestone for understanding the molecular mechanisms of gene regulation and related diseases.
The nucleus, a genome-containing organelle eponymous of eukaryotes, is enclosed by a double membrane continuous with the endoplasmic reticulum. The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is an similar to 110-MDa, similar to 1000-protein channel that selectively transports macromolecules across the nuclear envelope and thus plays a central role in the regulated flow of genetic information from transcription to translation. Its size, complexity, and flexibility have hindered determination of atomistic structures of intact NPCs. Recent studies have overcome these hurdles by combining biochemical reconstitution and docking of high-resolution structures of NPC subcomplexes into cryo-electron tomographic reconstructions with biochemical and physiological validation. Here, we provide an overview of the near-atomic composite structure of the human NPC, a milestone toward unlocking a molecular understanding of mRNA export, NPC-associated diseases, and viral host-pathogen interactions, serving as a paradigm for studying similarly large complexes.
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