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Kubota N, Inayoshi Y, Satoh N, Fukuda T, Iwai K, Tomoda H, Kohara M, Kataoka K, Shimamoto A, Furuichi Y, Nomoto A, Naganuma A, Kuge S. HSC90 is required for nascent hepatitis C virus core protein stability in yeast cells. FEBS Lett 2012; 586:2318-25. [PMID: 22659183 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2012] [Accepted: 05/11/2012] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Hepatitis C virus core protein (Core) contributes to HCV pathogenicity. Here, we demonstrate that Core impairs growth in budding yeast. We identify HSP90 inhibitors as compounds that reduce intracellular Core protein level and restore yeast growth. Our results suggest that HSC90 (Hsc82) may function in the protection of the nascent Core polypeptide against degradation in yeast and the C-terminal region of Core corresponding to the organelle-interaction domain was responsible for Hsc82-dependent stability. The yeast system may be utilized to select compounds that can direct the C-terminal region to reduce the stability of Core protein.
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- Naoko Kubota
- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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Bossolasco M, Veillette F, Bertrand R, Mes-Masson AM. Human TDE1, a TDE1/TMS family member, inhibits apoptosis in vitro and stimulates in vivo tumorigenesis. Oncogene 2006; 25:4549-58. [PMID: 16547497 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We have previously described hTDE1, the human homologue of the recently described TDE1/TMS family of proteins whose members have been identified in several species. Although a defined biochemical activity has yet to be assigned to TDE1/TMS family members, previous results point to the overexpression of family members in tumor cell lines or tissues. To define whether hTDE1 may directly impact on neoplastic transformation, we derived and characterized stable Rat-1 transfectants that constitutively express hTDE1 at the plasma membrane. Expression of hTDE1 in Rat-1 transfectants had a significant effect on cell contact inhibition in vitro as judged by a focus formation assay. In addition, by monitoring caspase-3 activity and Hoechst staining, we determined that hTDE1 overexpression partially protects cells from serum starvation- and etoposide-induced apoptosis. Finally, hTDE1 Rat-1-expressing clones accelerated the formation of tumors in a nude mouse assay. Our results suggest that hTDE1 contributes directly to oncogenesis in vivo that may in part be explained by its effect on apoptosis in vitro.
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- M Bossolasco
- Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CR-CHUM) and Institut du cancer de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Zheng C, Brownlie R, Babiuk LA, van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk S. Characterization of nuclear localization and export signals of the major tegument protein VP8 of bovine herpesvirus-1. Virology 2004; 324:327-39. [PMID: 15207619 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2004.03.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2003] [Revised: 07/29/2003] [Accepted: 03/24/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1) VP8 is found in the nucleus immediately after infection. Transient expression of VP8 fused to yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) in COS-7 cells confirmed the nuclear localization of VP8 in the absence of other viral proteins. VP8 has four putative nuclear localization signals (NLS). Deletion of pat4 ((51)RRPR(54)) or pat7 ((48)PRVRRPR(54)) NLS2 abrogated nuclear accumulation, whereas deletion of (48)PRV(50) did not, so pat4 NLS2 is critical for nuclear localization of VP8. Furthermore, NLS1 ((11)RRPRR(15)), pat4 NLS2, and pat7 NLS2 were all capable of transporting the majority of YFP to the nucleus. Finally, a 12-amino-acid peptide with the sequence RRPRRPRVRRPR directed all of YFP into the nucleus, suggesting that reiteration of the RRPR motif makes the nuclear localization more efficient. Heterokaryon assays demonstrated that VP8 is also capable of shuttling between the nucleus and cytoplasm of the cell. Deletion mutant analysis revealed that this property is attributed to a leucine-rich nuclear export sequence (NES) consisting of amino acids (485)LSAYLTLFVAL(495). This leucine-rich NES caused transport of YFP to the cytoplasm. These results demonstrate that VP8 shuttles between the nucleus and cytoplasm.
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- Chunfu Zheng
- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, 120 Veterinary Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E3
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Isoyama T, Kuge S, Nomoto A. The core protein of hepatitis C virus is imported into the nucleus by transport receptor Kap123p but inhibits Kap121p-dependent nuclear import of yeast AP1-like transcription factor in yeast cells. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:39634-41. [PMID: 12167639 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m203939200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The core protein of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major component of the viral nucleocapsid. The HCV core protein includes nuclear localization signal-like sequences and has various effects on cellular metabolism, playing roles, for example, in the regulation of transcription, apoptosis, and transformation. To examine the possibility of an effect of the core protein on nucleocytoplasmic transport, we used the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system. The core protein (p23) is processed to p21 and is localized in both the cytoplasm and nucleus in yeast cells, similar to that observed in mammalian cells in several cases. The nuclear import of the core protein requires the activity of small GTPase Ran/Gsp1p and is mediated by Kap123p in yeast cells. When the core protein was expressed in yeast cells, the import of the yeast AP1-like transcription factor Yap1p into the nucleus was inhibited. Experiments in vitro involving Kap121p, also known as Pse1p, a receptor for the nuclear import of Yap1p, indicated that the amount of Yap1p bound to Kap121p was reduced in the presence of core protein. These results suggest that the HCV core protein affects cellular metabolism by disturbing transport of proteins to the nucleus.
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- Takeshi Isoyama
- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Dohlman HG, Thorner JW. Regulation of G protein-initiated signal transduction in yeast: paradigms and principles. Annu Rev Biochem 2002; 70:703-54. [PMID: 11395421 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biochem.70.1.703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 366] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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All cells have the capacity to evoke appropriate and measured responses to signal molecules (such as peptide hormones), environmental changes, and other external stimuli. Tremendous progress has been made in identifying the proteins that mediate cellular response to such signals and in elucidating how events at the cell surface are linked to subsequent biochemical changes in the cytoplasm and nucleus. An emerging area of investigation concerns how signaling components are assembled and regulated (both spatially and temporally), so as to control properly the specificity and intensity of a given signaling pathway. A related question under intensive study is how the action of an individual signaling pathway is integrated with (or insulated from) other pathways to constitute larger networks that control overall cell behavior appropriately. This review describes the signal transduction pathway used by budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to respond to its peptide mating pheromones. This pathway is comprised by receptors, a heterotrimeric G protein, and a protein kinase cascade all remarkably similar to counterparts in multicellular organisms. The primary focus of this review, however, is recent advances that have been made, using primarily genetic methods, in identifying molecules responsible for regulation of the action of the components of this signaling pathway. Just as many of the constituent proteins of this pathway and their interrelationships were first identified in yeast, the functions of some of these regulators have clearly been conserved in metazoans, and others will likely serve as additional models for molecules that carry out analogous roles in higher organisms.
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- H G Dohlman
- Department of Pharmacology, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06536-0812, USA.
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a very powerful system for cell biological research. Recent advances in electronic light microscopy together with the application of green fluorescent protein and other in vivo staining techniques have allowed novel and exciting insights into structural organization and dynamics of cells as small as yeast. Methods for staining yeast for microscopic inspection and for introducing tags for localization studies of proteins in living or fixed cells are summarized. Electronic light microscopy, video/deconvolution methods, and confocal laser scanning microscopy as novel tools for structural analyses, and their practical applications in yeast, are discussed.
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- S D Kohlwein
- SFB Biomembrane Research Center, Department of Biochemistry, Technical University Graz, Petersgasse 12, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
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Colas P, Cohen B, Ko Ferrigno P, Silver PA, Brent R. Targeted modification and transportation of cellular proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:13720-5. [PMID: 11106396 PMCID: PMC17642 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.25.13720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Peptide aptamers are proteins selected from combinatorial libraries that display conformationally constrained variable regions. Peptide aptamers can disrupt specific protein interactions and thus represent a useful method for manipulating protein function in vivo. Here, we describe aptamer derivatives that extend the range of functional manipulations. We isolated an aptamer with increased affinity for its Cdk2 target by mutagenizing an existing aptamer and identifying tighter binding mutants with calibrated two-hybrid reporter genes. We used this and other anti-Cdk2 aptamers as recognition domains in chimeric proteins that contained other functional moieties. Aptamers fused to the catalytic domain of a ubiquitin ligase specifically decorated LexA-Cdk2 with ubiquitin moieties in vivo. Aptamers against Cdk2 and another protein, Ste5, that carried a nuclear localization sequence transported their targets into the nucleus. These experiments indicate that fusion proteins containing aptameric recognition moieties will be useful for specific modification of protein function in vivo.
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- P Colas
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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The Fanconi anemia proteins FANCA and FANCG stabilize each other and promote the nuclear accumulation of the Fanconi anemia complex. Blood 2000. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v96.9.3224.h8003224_3224_3230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive cancer susceptibility syndrome with 8 complementation groups. Four of the FA genes have been cloned, and at least 3 of the encoded proteins, FANCA, FANCC, and FANCG/XRCC9, interact in a multisubunit protein complex. The FANCG protein binds directly to the amino terminal nuclear localization sequence (NLS) of FANCA, suggesting that FANCG plays a role in regulating FANCA nuclear accumulation. In the current study the functional consequences of FANCG/FANCA binding were examined. Correction of an FA-G cell line with the FANCG complementary DNA (cDNA) resulted in FANCA/FANCG binding, prolongation of the cellular half-life of FANCA, and an increase in the nuclear accumulation of the FA protein complex. Similar results were obtained upon correction of an FA-A cell line, with a reciprocal increase in the half-life of FANCG. Patient-derived mutant forms of FANCA, containing an intact NLS sequence but point mutations in the carboxy-terminal leucine zipper region, bound FANCG in the cytoplasm. The mutant forms failed to translocate to the nucleus of transduced cells, thereby suggesting a model of coordinated binding and nuclear translocation. These results demonstrate that the FANCA/FANCG interaction is required to maintain the cellular levels of both proteins. Moreover, at least one function of FANCG and FANCA is to regulate the nuclear accumulation of the FA protein complex. Failure to accumulate the nuclear FA protein complex results in the characteristic spectrum of clinical and cellular abnormalities observed in FA.
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The Fanconi anemia proteins FANCA and FANCG stabilize each other and promote the nuclear accumulation of the Fanconi anemia complex. Blood 2000. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v96.9.3224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive cancer susceptibility syndrome with 8 complementation groups. Four of the FA genes have been cloned, and at least 3 of the encoded proteins, FANCA, FANCC, and FANCG/XRCC9, interact in a multisubunit protein complex. The FANCG protein binds directly to the amino terminal nuclear localization sequence (NLS) of FANCA, suggesting that FANCG plays a role in regulating FANCA nuclear accumulation. In the current study the functional consequences of FANCG/FANCA binding were examined. Correction of an FA-G cell line with the FANCG complementary DNA (cDNA) resulted in FANCA/FANCG binding, prolongation of the cellular half-life of FANCA, and an increase in the nuclear accumulation of the FA protein complex. Similar results were obtained upon correction of an FA-A cell line, with a reciprocal increase in the half-life of FANCG. Patient-derived mutant forms of FANCA, containing an intact NLS sequence but point mutations in the carboxy-terminal leucine zipper region, bound FANCG in the cytoplasm. The mutant forms failed to translocate to the nucleus of transduced cells, thereby suggesting a model of coordinated binding and nuclear translocation. These results demonstrate that the FANCA/FANCG interaction is required to maintain the cellular levels of both proteins. Moreover, at least one function of FANCG and FANCA is to regulate the nuclear accumulation of the FA protein complex. Failure to accumulate the nuclear FA protein complex results in the characteristic spectrum of clinical and cellular abnormalities observed in FA.
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Carboxy terminal region of the Fanconi anemia protein, FANCG/XRCC9, is required for functional activity. Blood 2000. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v96.5.1625.h8001625a_1625_1632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive cancer susceptibility syndrome with eight complementation groups. Four of the FA genes have been cloned, and at least three of the encoded proteins, FANCA, FANCC, and FANCG/XRCC9, interact in a nuclear complex, required for the maintenance of normal chromosome stability. In the current study, mutant forms of the FANCA and FANCG proteins have been generated and analyzed with respect to protein complex formation, nuclear translocation, and functional activity. The results demonstrate that the amino terminal two-thirds of FANCG (FANCG amino acids 1-428) binds to the amino terminal nuclear localization signal (NLS) of the FANCA protein. On the basis of 2-hybrid analysis, the FANCA/FANCG binding is a direct protein-protein interaction. Interestingly, a truncated mutant form of the FANCG protein, lacking the carboxy terminus, binds in a complex with FANCA and translocates to the nucleus; however, this mutant protein fails to bind to FANCC and fails to correct the mitomycin C sensitivity of an FA-G cell line. Taken together, these results demonstrate that binding of FANCG to the amino terminal FANCA NLS sequence is necessary but not sufficient for the functional activity of FANCG. Additional amino acid sequences at the carboxy terminus of FANCG are required for the binding of FANCC in the complex.
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Carboxy terminal region of the Fanconi anemia protein, FANCG/XRCC9, is required for functional activity. Blood 2000. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v96.5.1625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive cancer susceptibility syndrome with eight complementation groups. Four of the FA genes have been cloned, and at least three of the encoded proteins, FANCA, FANCC, and FANCG/XRCC9, interact in a nuclear complex, required for the maintenance of normal chromosome stability. In the current study, mutant forms of the FANCA and FANCG proteins have been generated and analyzed with respect to protein complex formation, nuclear translocation, and functional activity. The results demonstrate that the amino terminal two-thirds of FANCG (FANCG amino acids 1-428) binds to the amino terminal nuclear localization signal (NLS) of the FANCA protein. On the basis of 2-hybrid analysis, the FANCA/FANCG binding is a direct protein-protein interaction. Interestingly, a truncated mutant form of the FANCG protein, lacking the carboxy terminus, binds in a complex with FANCA and translocates to the nucleus; however, this mutant protein fails to bind to FANCC and fails to correct the mitomycin C sensitivity of an FA-G cell line. Taken together, these results demonstrate that binding of FANCG to the amino terminal FANCA NLS sequence is necessary but not sufficient for the functional activity of FANCG. Additional amino acid sequences at the carboxy terminus of FANCG are required for the binding of FANCC in the complex.
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Moy TI, Silver PA. Nuclear export of the small ribosomal subunit requires the ran-GTPase cycle and certain nucleoporins. Genes Dev 1999; 13:2118-33. [PMID: 10465789 PMCID: PMC316945 DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.16.2118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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After their assembly in the nucleolus, ribosomal subunits are exported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. After export, the 20S rRNA in the small ribosomal subunit is cleaved to yield 18S rRNA and the small 5' ITS1 fragment. The 5' ITS1 RNA is normally degraded by the cytoplasmic Xrn1 exonuclease, but in strains lacking XRN1, the 5' ITS1 fragment accumulates in the cytoplasm. Using the cytoplasmic localization of the 5' ITS1 fragment as an indicator for the export of the small ribosomal subunit, we have identified genes that are required for ribosome export. Ribosome export is dependent on the Ran-GTPase as mutations in Ran or its regulators caused 5' ITS1 to accumulate in the nucleoplasm. Mutations in the genes encoding the nucleoporin Nup82 and in the NES exporter Xpo1/Crm1 also caused the nucleoplasmic accumulation of 5' ITS1. Mutants in a subset of nucleoporins and in the nuclear transport factors Srp1, Kap95, Pse1, Cse1, and Mtr10 accumulate the 5' ITS1 in the nucleolus and affect ribosome assembly. In contrast, we did not detect nuclear accumulation of 5' ITS1 in 28 yeast strains that have mutations in other genes affecting nuclear trafficking.
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- T I Moy
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School and The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA
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Ferrigno P, Posas F, Koepp D, Saito H, Silver PA. Regulated nucleo/cytoplasmic exchange of HOG1 MAPK requires the importin beta homologs NMD5 and XPO1. EMBO J 1998; 17:5606-14. [PMID: 9755161 PMCID: PMC1170889 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.19.5606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 344] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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MAP kinase signaling modules serve to transduce extracellular signals to the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, but little is known about how signals cross the nuclear envelope. Exposure of yeast cells to increases in extracellular osmolarity activates the HOG1 MAP kinase cascade, which is composed of three tiers of protein kinases, namely the SSK2, SSK22 and STE11 MAPKKKs, the PBS2 MAPKK, and the HOG1 MAPK. Using green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions of these kinases, we found that HOG1, PBS2 and STE11 localize to the cytoplasm of unstressed cells. Following osmotic stress, HOG1, but neither PBS2 nor STE11, translocates into the nucleus. HOG1 translocation occurs very rapidly, is transient, and correlates with the phosphorylation and activation of the MAP kinase by its MAPKK. HOG1 phosphorylation is necessary and sufficient for nuclear translocation, because a catalytically inactive kinase when phosphorylated is translocated to the nucleus as efficiently as the wild-type. Nuclear import of the MAPK under stress conditions requires the activity of the small GTP binding protein Ran-GSP1, but not the NLS-binding importin alpha/beta heterodimer. Rather, HOG1 import requires the activity of a gene, NMD5, that encodes a novel importin beta homolog. Similarly, export of dephosphorylated HOG1 from the nucleus requires the activity of the NES receptor XPO1/CRM1. Our findings define the requirements for the regulated nuclear transport of a stress-activated MAP kinase.
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- P Ferrigno
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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