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Gunkel P, Iino H, Krull S, Cordes VC. ZC3HC1 Is a Novel Inherent Component of the Nuclear Basket, Resident in a State of Reciprocal Dependence with TPR. Cells 2021; 10:1937. [PMID: 34440706 PMCID: PMC8393659 DOI: 10.3390/cells10081937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Revised: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The nuclear basket (NB) scaffold, a fibrillar structure anchored to the nuclear pore complex (NPC), is regarded as constructed of polypeptides of the coiled-coil dominated protein TPR to which other proteins can bind without contributing to the NB's structural integrity. Here we report vertebrate protein ZC3HC1 as a novel inherent constituent of the NB, common at the nuclear envelopes (NE) of proliferating and non-dividing, terminally differentiated cells of different morphogenetic origin. Formerly described as a protein of other functions, we instead present the NB component ZC3HC1 as a protein required for enabling distinct amounts of TPR to occur NB-appended, with such ZC3HC1-dependency applying to about half the total amount of TPR at the NEs of different somatic cell types. Furthermore, pointing to an NB structure more complex than previously anticipated, we discuss how ZC3HC1 and the ZC3HC1-dependent TPR polypeptides could enlarge the NB's functional repertoire.
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- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany; (P.G.); (H.I.); (S.K.)
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Ulrich A, Partridge JR, Schwartz TU. The stoichiometry of the nucleoporin 62 subcomplex of the nuclear pore in solution. Mol Biol Cell 2014; 25:1484-92. [PMID: 24574455 PMCID: PMC4004597 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-12-0745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The nuclear pore complex (NPC) regulates transport between the nucleus and cytoplasm. Soluble cargo-protein complexes navigate through the pore by binding to phenylalanine-glycine (FG)-repeat proteins attached to the channel walls. The Nup62 complex contains the FG-repeat proteins Nup62, Nup54, and Nup58 and is located in the center of the NPC. The three proteins bind each other via conserved coiled-coil segments. To determine the stoichiometry of the Nup62 complex, we undertook an in vitro study using gel filtration and analytical ultracentrifugation. Our results reveal a 1:1:1 stoichiometry of the Nup62 complex, where Nup54 is central with direct binding to Nup62 and Nup58. At high protein concentration, the complex forms larger assemblies while maintaining the Nup62:Nup54:Nup58 ratio. For the homologous Nsp1 complex from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we determine the same stoichiometry, indicating evolutionary conservation. Furthermore, we observe that eliminating one binding partner can result in the formation of complexes with noncanonical stoichiometry, presumably because unpaired coiled-coil elements tend to find a promiscuous binding partner. We suggest that these noncanonical stoichiometries observed in vitro are unlikely to be physiologically relevant.
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- Alexander Ulrich
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, AG Strukturbiochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Romes EM, Tripathy A, Slep KC. Structure of a yeast Dyn2-Nup159 complex and molecular basis for dynein light chain-nuclear pore interaction. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:15862-73. [PMID: 22411995 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.336172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The nuclear pore complex gates nucleocytoplasmic transport through a massive, eight-fold symmetric channel capped by a nucleoplasmic basket and structurally unique, cytoplasmic fibrils whose tentacles bind and regulate asymmetric traffic. The conserved Nup82 complex, composed of Nsp1, Nup82, and Nup159, forms the unique cytoplasmic fibrils that regulate mRNA nuclear export. Although the nuclear pore complex plays a fundamental, conserved role in nuclear trafficking, structural information about the cytoplasmic fibrils is limited. Here, we investigate the structural and biochemical interactions between Saccharomyces cerevisiae Nup159 and the nucleoporin, Dyn2. We find that Dyn2 is predominantly a homodimer and binds arrayed sites on Nup159, promoting the Nup159 parallel homodimerization. We present the first structure of Dyn2, determined at 1.85 Å resolution, complexed with a Nup159 target peptide. Dyn2 resembles homologous metazoan dynein light chains, forming homodimeric composite substrate binding sites that engage two independent 10-residue target motifs, imparting a β-strand structure to each peptide via antiparallel extension of the Dyn2 core β-sandwich. Dyn2 recognizes a highly conserved QT motif while allowing sequence plasticity in the flanking residues of the peptide. Isothermal titration calorimetric analysis of the comparative binding of Dyn2 to two Nup159 target sites shows similar affinities (18 and 13 μM), but divergent thermal binding modes. Dyn2 homodimers are arrayed in the crystal lattice, likely mimicking the arrayed architecture of Dyn2 on the Nup159 multivalent binding sites. Crystallographic interdimer interactions potentially reflect a cooperative basis for Dyn2-Nup159 complex formation. Our data highlight the determinants that mediate oligomerization of the Nup82 complex and promote a directed, elongated cytoplasmic fibril architecture.
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- Erin M Romes
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Onischenko E, Weis K. Nuclear pore complex-a coat specifically tailored for the nuclear envelope. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2011; 23:293-301. [PMID: 21296566 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2011.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2010] [Revised: 12/23/2010] [Accepted: 01/07/2011] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are highly selective transport gates that enable the bi-directional traffic of macromolecules across the nuclear envelope (NE). NPCs are located at the fusion pores between the inner and outer membranes of the NE and are built from a common set of ∼30 different proteins, nucleoporins. Remarkably, recent proteomic, bioinformatic, and structural studies have provided firm evidence that key structural nucleoporins share common ancestry with elements of coated vesicles, indicating an evolutionary link between these structures. This has provided novel insight into the origin of NPCs and may help us to better functionally characterize these fundamental components of eukaryotic cells.
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- Evgeny Onischenko
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, United States
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Doucet CM, Talamas JA, Hetzer MW. Cell cycle-dependent differences in nuclear pore complex assembly in metazoa. Cell 2010; 141:1030-41. [PMID: 20550937 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.04.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2009] [Revised: 02/15/2010] [Accepted: 04/06/2010] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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In metazoa, nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) assemble from disassembled precursors into a reforming nuclear envelope (NE) at the end of mitosis and into growing intact NEs during interphase. Here, we show via RNAi-mediated knockdown that ELYS, a nucleoporin critical for the recruitment of the essential Nup107/160 complex to chromatin, is required for NPC assembly at the end of mitosis but not during interphase. Conversely, the transmembrane nucleoporin POM121 is critical for the incorporation of the Nup107/160 complex into new assembly sites specifically during interphase. Strikingly, recruitment of the Nup107/160 complex to an intact NE involves a membrane curvature-sensing domain of its constituent Nup133, which is not required for postmitotic NPC formation. Our results suggest that in organisms with open mitosis, NPCs assemble via two distinct mechanisms to accommodate cell cycle-dependent differences in NE topology.
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- Christine M Doucet
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, 92037 CA, USA
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Krull S, Dörries J, Boysen B, Reidenbach S, Magnius L, Norder H, Thyberg J, Cordes VC. Protein Tpr is required for establishing nuclear pore-associated zones of heterochromatin exclusion. EMBO J 2010; 29:1659-73. [PMID: 20407419 PMCID: PMC2876962 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2009] [Accepted: 03/09/2010] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Amassments of heterochromatin in somatic cells occur in close contact with the nuclear envelope (NE) but are gapped by channel- and cone-like zones that appear largely free of heterochromatin and associated with the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). To identify proteins involved in forming such heterochromatin exclusion zones (HEZs), we used a cell culture model in which chromatin condensation induced by poliovirus (PV) infection revealed HEZs resembling those in normal tissue cells. HEZ occurrence depended on the NPC-associated protein Tpr and its large coiled coil-forming domain. RNAi-mediated loss of Tpr allowed condensing chromatin to occur all along the NE's nuclear surface, resulting in HEZs no longer being established and NPCs covered by heterochromatin. These results assign a central function to Tpr as a determinant of perinuclear organization, with a direct role in forming a morphologically distinct nuclear sub-compartment and delimiting heterochromatin distribution.
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- Sandra Krull
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Virology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Virology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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De Keersmaecker K, Rocnik JL, Bernad R, Lee BH, Leeman D, Gielen O, Verachtert H, Folens C, Munck S, Marynen P, Fornerod M, Gilliland DG, Cools J. Kinase activation and transformation by NUP214-ABL1 is dependent on the context of the nuclear pore. Mol Cell 2008; 31:134-42. [PMID: 18614052 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2007] [Revised: 03/20/2008] [Accepted: 05/02/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Genetic alterations causing constitutive tyrosine kinase activation are observed in a broad spectrum of cancers. Thus far, these mutant kinases have been localized to the plasma membrane or cytoplasm, where they engage proliferation and survival pathways. We report that the NUP214-ABL1 fusion is unique among these because of its requisite localization to the nuclear pore complex for its transforming potential. We show that NUP214-ABL1 displays attenuated transforming capacity as compared to BCR-ABL1 and that NUP214-ABL1 preferentially transforms T cells, which is in agreement with its unique occurrence in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Furthermore, NUP214-ABL1 differs from BCR-ABL1 in subcellular localization, initiation of kinase activity, and signaling and lacks phosphorylation on its activation loop. In addition to delineating an unusual mechanism for kinase activation, this study provides new insights into the spectrum of chromosomal translocations involving nucleoporins by indicating that the nuclear pore context itself may play a central role in transformation.
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- Kim De Keersmaecker
- Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, VIB, K.U. Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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The spatial separation between the cytoplasm and the cell nucleus necessitates the continuous exchange of macromolecular cargo across the double-membraned nuclear envelope. Being the only passageway in and out of the nucleus, the nuclear pore complex (NPC) has the principal function of regulating the high throughput of nucleocytoplasmic transport in a highly selective manner so as to maintain cellular order and function. Here, we present a retrospective review of the evidence that has led to the current understanding of both NPC structure and function. Looking towards the future, we contemplate on how various outstanding effects and nanoscopic characteristics ought to be addressed, with the goal of reconciling structure and function into a single unified picture of the NPC.
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Troyer D, Schwager P. Evidence for nuclear membrane fluidity: Proacrosome migration and nuclear pore redistribution during grasshopper spermiogenesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1002/cm.970020405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Ishov AM, Maul GG. The periphery of nuclear domain 10 (ND10) as site of DNA virus deposition. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1996; 134:815-26. [PMID: 8769408 PMCID: PMC2120958 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.134.4.815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 292] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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After DNA viruses enter the nucleus, they initiate a transcriptional cascade which is followed by replication. We investigated whether these processes take place at specific nuclear sites or, as suggested by the mode of entry, randomly throughout the nucleus. Three distinct nuclear domains, nuclear factor-1 sites, coiled bodies, and nuclear domain 10 (ND10), were used as markers to investigate the relative position of DNA virus replication sites. We found that all three nuclear domains had a very high spatial correlation with each other in uninfected cells. After adenoviral infection, nuclear factor 1 and coiled bodies were found associated with some viral replication domains. Simian virus 40 begins replication adjacent to ND10 but adenovirus 5 and herpes simplex type 1 modified ND10s before replication. Adenovirus E4orf 3 gene deletion mutants retain ND10 and begin replication at the peripheries of ND10. The same was found for the herpes simplex virus type 1 immediate early gene 1 mutants. That the deposition and replication of adenovirus 5 and herpesvirus type 1 at ND10 was not a mutant phenotype was confirmed by finding the input wild-type virus juxtaposed to ND10. The transport of viral genomes to ND10 does not require viral gene expression. Thus, the peripheries of ND10 represent preferred sites where early steps of transcription and replication of at least three DNA virus families take place, suggesting a new set of functional properties for this large nuclear domain.
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- A M Ishov
- Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Maul GG, Yu E, Ishov AM, Epstein AL. Nuclear domain 10 (ND10) associated proteins are also present in nuclear bodies and redistribute to hundreds of nuclear sites after stress. J Cell Biochem 1995; 59:498-513. [PMID: 8749719 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240590410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The promyelocytic leukemia protein fused to the retinoic acid receptor alpha in t(15;17) acute promyelocytic leukemia, the primary biliary cirrhosis autoantigen, Sp100, as well as the incompletely characterized protein NDP55, are co-localized in specific immunohistochemically defined nuclear domains (ND10), which are potential equivalents of ultrastructurally defined nuclear bodies. We investigated whether the distribution of these proteins depends on environmental conditions and whether ND10 correlate with nuclear bodies. Certain nuclear bodies and ND10 react in a similar way and share antigens. Interferon exposure doubled the number of ND10 and increased the frequency of nuclear bodies, whereas herpes simplex virus infection or heat shock modify both. Redistribution of ND10-associated proteins to hundreds of small sites throughout the chromatin was inducible by stress in the form of heat shock and exposure to Cd++ ions. The change of distribution was rapid and independent of protein synthesis, and thus not part of the classical heat shock response. The very rapid redistribution of these proteins after heat shock, together with the development of ND10 upon interferon activation, raises the possibility that ND10 represent storage sites of certain matrix proteins readily accessible throughout the chromatin in response to stress or other effectors that induce global nuclear changes.
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- G G Maul
- Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Liu T, Peng C, Mussen E, Marston J, Munn R. Ultrastructure of the freeze-etched spore of Ascosphaera apis, an entomopathogenic fungus of the honeybee Apis mellifera. J Invertebr Pathol 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-2011(91)90141-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Kessel RG. Annulate lamellae (porous cytomembranes): with particular emphasis on their possible role in differentiation of the female gamete. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY (NEW YORK, N.Y. : 1985) 1985; 1:179-233. [PMID: 3917201 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-6814-8_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- R G Kessel
- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
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Kessel RG. The structure and function of annulate lamellae: porous cytoplasmic and intranuclear membranes. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1983; 82:181-303. [PMID: 6352549 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)60826-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Carmo-Fonseca M, David-Ferreira JF. Quantitative study of nuclear pore complexes in ventral prostate isolated nuclei from intact and castrated rats. JOURNAL OF ULTRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH 1981; 76:202-14. [PMID: 7299899 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5320(81)80018-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Freeze-fracture and thin sectioning techniques were used to follow in large synchronous plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum the changes in number and distribution of nuclear pores during the cell cycle. Using freeze-fracture, we determined that average pore frequency rises gradually from 14/micrometers(2) of nuclear envelope surface at early S to a value of about 22 just before prophase. Nuclear diameter averaged 3.3 micrometers at early S and increased to 4.3 micrometers at late G2. Calculating nuclear volume and average chromatin volume per nucleus with respect to time in the cell cycle leads to the conclusion that number of nuclear pores appears to be most directly related to amount of chromatin present per nucleus and to be independent of nuclear surface area.
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Wille JJ, Steffens WL. Cycle specific association of nascent chromatin with nuclear envelope components in Physarum polycephalum. Nucleic Acids Res 1979; 6:3323-39. [PMID: 482128 PMCID: PMC327936 DOI: 10.1093/nar/6.10.3323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The action of heparin on isolated nuclei derived from different phases of the mitotic cycle in plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum was studied. Heparin addition at two-fold excess over DNA concentration to nuclei in Mg-free low ionic strength buffer (10 mM TRIS-HC1, 10 mM Na2 HPO4, pH = 8) releases 60-80% of chromatin from S, G2, and mitotic phase nuclei. The RNA/protein ratio of herparin-solubilized cromatin is constant through S and G2 phases, but rises about two-fold at early prophase coincident with nucleolar breakdown. Purified nuclear envelopes were obtained from heparin-treated nuclei by sedimentation according to Bornens procedures (Nature 244, 28, 1973), and examined by transmission electron microscopy. Residual chromatin is seen at all stages with fine network of DNA fibrils in contact with the envelop. Regardless of time in S, 80% of 3H-labeled DNA was released into soluble chromatin with identical 3H/14C ratios. The residual chromatin in nuclear envelopes exhibited a preferential association of early S-DNA in nuclei engaged in early S replication, and late S preferential association in nuclei engaged in late S replication.
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Schatten G, Thoman M. Nuclear surface complex as observed with the high resolution scanning electron microscope. Visualization of the membrane surfaces of the neclear envelope and the nuclear cortex from Xenopus laevis oocytes. J Cell Biol 1978; 77:517-35. [PMID: 649659 PMCID: PMC2110053 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.77.2.517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The nuclear envelope and associated structures from Xenopus laevis oocytes (stage VI) have been examined with the high resolution scanning electron microscope (SEM). The features of the inner and outer surfaces of the nuclear surface complex were revealed by manual isolation , whereas the membranes facing the perinuclear space (the space between the inner and outer nuclear membranes) were observed by fracturing the nuclear envelope in this plane and splaying the corresponding regions apart. Pore complexes were observed on all four membrane surfaces of this double-membraned structure. The densely packed pore complexes (55/micron2) are often clustered into triplets with shared walls (outer diameter = 90 nm; inner diameter = 25 nm; wall thickness = aproximately 30 nm), and project aproximately 20 nm above each membrane except where they are flush with the innermost surface. The pore complex appears to be an aggregate of four 30-nm subunits. The nuclear cortex, a fibrous layer (300 nm thickness) associated with the inner surface of the nuclear envelope, has been revealed by rapid fixation. This cortical layer is interrupted by funnel-shaped intranuclear channels (120-640 nm diam) which narrow towards the pore complexes. Chains of particles, arranged in spirals, are inserted into these intranuclear channels. The fibers associated with the innermost face of the nuclear envelope can be extraced with 0.6 MKI to reveal the pore complexes. A model of the nuclear surface complex, compiled from the visualization of all the membrane faces and the nuclear cortex, demonstrates relations between the intranuclear channels (3.2/micron2) and the numerous pore complexes, and the possibility of their role in nucleocytoplasmic interactions.
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Harris JR. The biochemistry and ultrastructure of the nuclear envelope. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1978; 515:55-104. [PMID: 346065 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(78)90008-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Harris N. Nuclear pore distribution and relation to adjacent cytoplasmic organelles in cotyledon cells of developing Vicia faba. PLANTA 1978; 141:121-128. [PMID: 24414765 DOI: 10.1007/bf00387877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/1977] [Accepted: 03/10/1978] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Following a zinc iodine-osmium tetroxide fixation, nuclear pore distribution was studied in 0.3-μm sections from cotyledons of developing Vicia faba L. Localised absence of nuclear pores was found to be associated with proximity of organelles to the nucleus. Golgi cisternae and mitochondria are associated with areas of pore absence while cisternal endoplasmic reticulum and tubular endoplasmic reticulum are linked with areas showing reduction in pore density. Pores were seen in the nuclear membrane adjacent to vacuoles. Pattern analysis of pore distribution indicated possible clustering within an overall regularity.
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- N Harris
- Department of Botany, University of Durham, DH13LE, Durham, UK
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Nuclear structures similar to those of the nuclear pore complex were found on chromosomes. This finding indicates that part of the pore complex is retained by the chromosomes through mitosis in the absence of the nuclear membrane. The formation of approximately the same number of pore complexes in the presence and absence of protein synthesis during the first 4 h after mitosis proves the reassembly rather than new synthesis of the pore complex. The structure of pore complexes reconstructed in the absence of protein synthesis cannot be distinguished from the structure of those of control cells.
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Kirschner RH, Rusli M, Martin TE. Characterization of the nuclear envelope, pore complexes, and dense lamina of mouse liver nuclei by high resolution scanning electron microscopy. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1977; 72:118-32. [PMID: 556616 PMCID: PMC2110994 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.72.1.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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We have used high resolution scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to study the nuclear envelope components of isolated mouse liver nuclei. The surfaces of intact nuclei are covered by closely packed ribosomes which are distinguishable by SEM from nuclear pore complexes. After removal of nuclear membranes with the nonionic detergent Triton X-100, the pore complexes remain attached to an underlying, peripheral nuclear lamina, as described by others. The surface of this dense lamina is composed of particulate granules, 75-150 A in diameter, which are contiguous over the entire periphery. We did not observe the pore-to-pore fibril network suggested by other investigators, but such a structure might be the framework upon which the dense lamina is formed. Morphometric analysis of pores and pore complexes shows their size, structure, and density to be similar to that of other mammalian cells. In addition, several types of pore complex-associated structures, not previously reported by other electron microscope (EM) techniques, are observed by SEM. Our studies suggest that the major role of the dense lamina is associated with the distribution, stability, and perhaps, biogenesis of nuclear pore complexes. Treatment of isolated nuclei with a combination of Triton X-100 and sodium deoxycholate removes membranes, dense lamina, and nuclear pore complexes. The resulting "chromatin nuclei" retain their integrity despite the absence of any limiting peripheral structures.
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Maul GG. Fibrils attached to the nuclear pore prevent egress of SV40 particles from the infected nucleus. J Cell Biol 1976; 70:714-9. [PMID: 182701 PMCID: PMC2109846 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.70.3.714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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SV40 particles can apparently enter the nucleus intact. However, they do not leave the nucleus despite the high concentration present during the productive phase. We found structural evidence that SV40 virus is prevented from approaching the most likely site of exit, the nuclear pore complex. From these images, it is concluded that the fibrils attached to the nuclear pore complex prevent egress of SV40 particles from the infected nucleus.
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Cabradilla CD, Toliver AP. S-phase dependent forms of DNA - nuclear membrane complexes in HeLa cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1975; 402:188-98. [PMID: 1174535 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2787(75)90038-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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DNA - nuclear membrane complexes were isolated from HeLa cells and examined by either zone sedimentation analysis or isopycnic centrifugation in sucrose/CsCl gradients. The data suggest that the complexes formed during the first 10 min of the S-phase remain as stable structures throughout the cell cycle. Other DNA - nuclear membrane complexes are formed at later times during replication. These later complexes appear as multiple species and the association of DNA and the nuclear membrane seems to be of a transient nature. Together, these results suggest that both the replicative origins and the replication points of the DNA are associated with the nuclear membrane. Although the complexes formed at the start of the S-phase and at later times during the S-phase appear to differ, these differences may provide them with the needed properties to serve as spatial organizers for the temporal regulation of DNA replication.
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Lott JN, Vollmer CM. Changes in the cotyledons of Cucurbita maxima during germination. V. The nuclear envelope. JOURNAL OF ULTRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH 1975; 52:156-66. [PMID: 1152111 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5320(75)80108-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Severs NJ, Jordan EG. An interpretive freeze-fracture study of plant cell nuclear pore complexes. JOURNAL OF ULTRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH 1975; 52:85-99. [PMID: 1097725 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5320(75)80024-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Harris JR, Price MR, Willison M. A comparative study on rat liver and hepatoma nuclear membranes. JOURNAL OF ULTRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH 1974; 48:17-32. [PMID: 4135100 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5320(74)80042-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Metuzals J, Mushynski WE. Electron microscope and experimental investigations of the neurofilamentous network in Deiters' neurons. Relationship with the cell surface and nuclear pores. J Cell Biol 1974; 61:701-22. [PMID: 4599504 PMCID: PMC2109302 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.61.3.701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The assembly of filamentous elements and their relations to the plasma membrane and to the nuclear pores have been studied in Deiters' neurons of rabbit brain. Electron microscopy of thin sections and of ectoplasm spread preparations have been integrated with physicochemical experiments and differential interference microscopy of freshly isolated cells. A neurofilamentous network extends as a continuous, three-dimensional, semilattice structure throughout the ectoplasm, the "plasma roads," and the perinuclear zone of the perikaryon. This space network consists of approximately 90-A wide neurofilaments arranged in fascicles which are interconnected by an exchange of neurofilaments. The neurofilaments consist of intercoiled approximately 20-A wide unit-filaments and are associated through cross-associating filaments with other neurofilaments of the fascicle and with microfilaments. The approximately 20-50-A wide microfilaments display intimate associations with the plasma membrane and with the nuclear pores. Electron microscopy of thin sections from glycerinated and heavy meromyosin-treated Deiters' neurons shows that actin-like filaments are present in the pre- and postsynaptic regions of synapses terminating on these neurons. It is proposed that the neurofilamentous space network serves a transducing function by linking plasma membrane activities with the genetic machinery of the neuron.
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Maul GG, Cross PC. Thymidine incorporation by annulate lamellae of rabbit zygoes. JOURNAL OF ULTRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH 1974; 47:115-24. [PMID: 4823593 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5320(74)90031-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Franke WW, Deumling B, Zentgraf H, Falk H, Rae PM. Nuclear membranes from mammalian liver. IV. Characterization of membrane-attached DNA. Exp Cell Res 1973; 81:365-92. [PMID: 4758906 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(73)90527-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Fiil A, Moens PB. The development, structure and function of modified synaptonemal complexes in mosquito oocytes. Chromosoma 1973; 41:37-62. [PMID: 4692204 DOI: 10.1007/bf00284073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Wischnitzer S. The submicroscopic morphology of the interphase nucleus. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1973; 34:1-48. [PMID: 4121838 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61933-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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KESSEL R. Structure and Function of the Nuclear Envelope and Related Cytomembranes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1973. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-571806-6.50011-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/11/2023]
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Engelhardt P, Pusa K. Nuclear pore complexes: "press-stud" elements of chromosomes in pairing and control. NATURE: NEW BIOLOGY 1972; 240:163-6. [PMID: 4564189 DOI: 10.1038/newbio240163a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Scheer U. Ultrastructure of the nuclear envelope of amphibian oocytes. IV. Chemical nature of the nuclear pore complex material. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ZELLFORSCHUNG UND MIKROSKOPISCHE ANATOMIE (VIENNA, AUSTRIA : 1948) 1972; 127:127-48. [PMID: 5018203 DOI: 10.1007/bf00582762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Maul GG, Price JW, Lieberman MW. Formation and distribution of nuclear pore complexes in interphase. J Cell Biol 1971; 51:405-18. [PMID: 5165267 PMCID: PMC2108142 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.51.2.405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The possibility of nuclear pore formation in the interphase nucleus was investigated in control and phytohemagglutinin (PHA) stimulated lymphocytes by the freeze-etching technique. 48 hr after the addition of PHA, the newly formed blasts which had not as yet divided had at least twice the number of pores per nucleus as controls. This clearly demonstrates that in lymphocytes nuclear pore formation can take place during interphase. It has generally been assumed that the distribution of nuclear pore complexes in somatic animal cells is random. However, we have utilized freeze etched rat kidney cells and a computer program to evaluate pore distribution. We find a minimum pore center-to-center spacing of approximately 1300 A and multiples thereof with high frequency. This is strong evidence for a nonrandom distribution of nuclear pores. The nonrandomness may be related to an underlying chromosomal organization in interphase. Using three criteria for identifying prospective pore sites (membrane specialization, nonrandomness, and alteration of heterochromatin distribution), we have found forming pores in sectioned material from cultured human melanoma cells. While nuclear pore formation may take place in conjunction with reformation of the nuclear membrane, a mechanism also exists for their formation during interphase.
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