Influence of cargo size on Ran and energy requirements for nuclear protein import

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Abstract

Previous work has shown that the transport of some small protein cargoes through the nuclear pore complex (NPC) can occur in vitro in the absence of nucleoside triphosphate hydrolysis. We now demonstrate that in the importin α/β and transportin import pathways, efficient in vitro transport of large proteins, in contrast to smaller proteins, requires hydrolyzable GTP and the small GTPase Ran. Morphological and biochemical analysis indicates that the presence of Ran and GTP allows large cargo to efficiently cross central regions of the NPC. We further demonstrate that this function of RanGTP at least partly involves its direct binding to importin β and transportin. We suggest that RanGTP functions in these pathways to promote the transport of large cargo by enhancing the ability of import complexes to traverse diffusionally restricted areas of the NPC.

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Lyman, S. K., Guan, T., Bednenko, J., Wodrich, H., & Gerace, L. (2002). Influence of cargo size on Ran and energy requirements for nuclear protein import. Journal of Cell Biology, 159(1), 55–67. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200204163

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