3kep

Structural highlights

Function

NU145_YEAST Functions as a component of the nuclear pore complex (NPC). NPC components, collectively referred to as nucleoporins (NUPs), can play the role of both NPC structural components and of docking or interaction partners for transiently associated nuclear transport factors. Active directional transport is assured by both, a Phe-Gly (FG) repeat affinity gradient for these transport factors across the NPC and a transport cofactor concentration gradient across the nuclear envelope (GSP1 and GSP2 GTPases associated predominantly with GTP in the nucleus, with GDP in the cytoplasm). NUP145 is autocatalytically cleaved in vivo in 2 polypeptides which assume different functions in the NPC. NUP145N as one of the FG repeat nucleoporins participates in karyopherin interactions and contains part of the autocatalytic cleavage activity. NUP145C as part of the NUP84 complex is involved in nuclear poly(A)+ RNA and tRNA export. It is also required for normal NPC distribution (probably through interactions with MLP1 and MLP2) and NPC assembly, as well as for normal nuclear envelope organization.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}

Evolutionary Conservation

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See Also

• Nucleoporin 3D structures

References

1. ↑ Fabre E, Boelens WC, Wimmer C, Mattaj IW, Hurt EC. Nup145p is required for nuclear export of mRNA and binds homopolymeric RNA in vitro via a novel conserved motif. Cell. 1994 Jul 29;78(2):275-89. PMID:8044840
2. ↑ Wente SR, Blobel G. NUP145 encodes a novel yeast glycine-leucine-phenylalanine-glycine (GLFG) nucleoporin required for nuclear envelope structure. J Cell Biol. 1994 Jun;125(5):955-69. PMID:8195299
3. ↑ Sharma K, Fabre E, Tekotte H, Hurt EC, Tollervey D. Yeast nucleoporin mutants are defective in pre-tRNA splicing. Mol Cell Biol. 1996 Jan;16(1):294-301. PMID:8524308
4. ↑ Teixeira MT, Siniossoglou S, Podtelejnikov S, Benichou JC, Mann M, Dujon B, Hurt E, Fabre E. Two functionally distinct domains generated by in vivo cleavage of Nup145p: a novel biogenesis pathway for nucleoporins. EMBO J. 1997 Aug 15;16(16):5086-97. PMID:9305650 doi:10.1093/emboj/16.16.5086
5. ↑ Teixeira MT, Fabre E, Dujon B. Self-catalyzed cleavage of the yeast nucleoporin Nup145p precursor. J Biol Chem. 1999 Nov 5;274(45):32439-44. PMID:10542288
6. ↑ Galy V, Olivo-Marin JC, Scherthan H, Doye V, Rascalou N, Nehrbass U. Nuclear pore complexes in the organization of silent telomeric chromatin. Nature. 2000 Jan 6;403(6765):108-12. PMID:10638763 doi:10.1038/47528
7. ↑ Lutzmann M, Kunze R, Buerer A, Aebi U, Hurt E. Modular self-assembly of a Y-shaped multiprotein complex from seven nucleoporins. EMBO J. 2002 Feb 1;21(3):387-97. PMID:11823431 doi:10.1093/emboj/21.3.387
8. ↑ Denning DP, Patel SS, Uversky V, Fink AL, Rexach M. Disorder in the nuclear pore complex: the FG repeat regions of nucleoporins are natively unfolded. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Mar 4;100(5):2450-5. Epub 2003 Feb 25. PMID:12604785 doi:10.1073/pnas.0437902100
9. ↑ Strawn LA, Shen T, Shulga N, Goldfarb DS, Wente SR. Minimal nuclear pore complexes define FG repeat domains essential for transport. Nat Cell Biol. 2004 Mar;6(3):197-206. Epub 2004 Feb 22. PMID:15039779 doi:10.1038/ncb1097