In the eukaryotic cell, a large macromolecular channel, known as the Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC), mediates all molecular transport between the nucleus and cytoplasm. In recent years, single-molecule fluorescence (SMF) imaging has emerged as a powerful tool to study the molecular mechanism of transport through the NPC. More recently, techniques such as single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) have enabled the spatial and temporal distribution of cargos, transport receptors and even structural components of the NPC to be determined with nanometre accuracy. In this protocol, we describe a method to study the position and/or motion of individual molecules transiting through the NPC with high spatial and temporal precision.
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Jeremy, G., Stevens, J., & Lowe, A. R. (2016). Single-molecule imaging to characterize the transport mechanism of the nuclear pore complex. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1431, pp. 17–35). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3631-1_3
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