Organelle-targeted therapies: a comprehensive review on system design for enabling precision oncology

J Yang, A Griffin, Z Qiang, J Ren - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is a major threat to human health. Among various treatment methods, precision
therapy has received significant attention since the inception, due to its ability to efficiently …

Structure and dynamics of nanoconfined water and aqueous solutions

HR Corti, GA Appignanesi, MC Barbosa… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
This review is devoted to discussing recent progress on the structure, thermodynamic,
reactivity, and dynamics of water and aqueous systems confined within different types of …

Simple rules for passive diffusion through the nuclear pore complex

BL Timney, B Raveh, R Mironska, JM Trivedi… - Journal of Cell …, 2016 - rupress.org
Passive macromolecular diffusion through nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) is thought to
decrease dramatically beyond a 30–60-kD size threshold. Using thousands of independent …

Polyadenylation and nuclear export of mRNAs

M Stewart - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
In eukaryotes, the separation of translation from transcription by the nuclear envelope
enables mRNA modifications such as capping, splicing, and polyadenylation. These …

The liquid state of FG-nucleoporins mimics permeability barrier properties of nuclear pore complexes

G Celetti, G Paci, J Caria, V VanDelinder… - Journal of Cell …, 2019 - rupress.org
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) regulate all cargo traffic across the nuclear envelope. The
transport conduit of NPCs is highly enriched in disordered phenylalanine/glycine-rich …

HEAT repeats–versatile arrays of amphiphilic helices working in crowded environments?

SH Yoshimura, T Hirano - Journal of cell science, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Cellular proteins do not work in isolation. Instead, they often function as part of large
macromolecular complexes, which are transported and concentrated into specific cellular …

Physics of the nuclear pore complex: Theory, modeling and experiment

BW Hoogenboom, LE Hough, EA Lemke, RYH Lim… - Physics reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The hallmark of eukaryotic cells is the nucleus that contains the genome, enclosed by a
physical barrier known as the nuclear envelope (NE). On the one hand, this …

A simple thermodynamic description of phase separation of Nup98 FG domains

SC Ng, D Görlich - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The permeability barrier of nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) controls nucleocytoplasmic
transport. It retains inert macromolecules but allows facilitated passage of nuclear transport …

Determinants of Superselectivity─ Practical Concepts for Application in Biology and Medicine

GV Dubacheva, T Curk, RP Richter - Accounts of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Multivalent interactions are common in biological systems and are also widely
deployed for targeting applications in biomedicine. A unique feature of multivalent binding is …

Super-resolved 3D tracking of cargo transport through nuclear pore complexes

R Chowdhury, A Sau, SM Musser - Nature cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) embedded within the nuclear envelope mediate rapid,
selective and bidirectional traffic between the cytoplasm and the nucleoplasm. Deciphering …