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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 104, Issue 8, Pages 1642-1651Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.03.024
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- Centre for Systems Biology in Dortmund
- European Regional Development Fund
- State of North Rhine-Westphalia
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The formation of an activity gradient of the small G-protein Ran around chromatin depends on the differential partitioning of the opposing enzyme activities of the Ran guanine nucleotide exchange factor RCC1 that resides on chromatin, and the cytoplasmic Ran GTPase activating protein RanGAP. We studied the time-dependent interaction kinetics between RCC1 and chromatin and the mobility of the Ran-RCC1 complex in living cells by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to investigate whether binding of RCC1 to chromatin regulates the exchange activity of RCC1, and whether the stability of the RCC1-chromatin interaction is regulated during the cell cycle. We found that RCC1 mobility is dominated by two states: a highly mobile state that is trapped within chromatin, and a transiently immobilized state that is stabilized during mitosis. We show that only the immobilized state of RCC1 interacts with Ran and conclude that its guanine nucleotide exchange activity is restricted to specific sites on chromatin.
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