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 …

Multifunctional peptides for tumor therapy

K Li, CJ Liu, XZ Zhang - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Controlled nano-systems for drug delivery are designed to deliver therapeutical drugs to
desirable sites on demand. Due to the diverse physiological functions of peptides, it 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 …

Technologies enabling single-molecule super-resolution imaging of mRNA

M Tingey, SJ Schnell, W Yu, J Saredy, S Junod, D Patel… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The transient nature of RNA has rendered it one of the more difficult biological targets for
imaging. This difficulty stems both from the physical properties of RNA as well as the …

The ciliary lumen accommodates passive diffusion and vesicle-assisted trafficking in cytoplasm–ciliary transport

A Ruba, M Tingey, W Luo, J Yu… - Molecular Biology of …, 2023 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Transport of membrane and cytosolic proteins into the primary cilium is essential for its role
in cellular signaling. Using virtual three-dimensional superresolution light microscopy, the …

Nanocompartmentalization of the nuclear pore lumen

K Huang, M Tagliazucchi, SH Park, Y Rabin, I Szleifer - Biophysical journal, 2020 - cell.com
The nuclear pore complex (NPC) employs the intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) from a
family of phenylalanine-glycine-rich nucleoporins (FG-Nups) to control nucleocytoplasmic …

Spelling out the roles of individual nucleoporins in nuclear export of mRNA

M Tingey, Y Li, W Yu, A Young, W Yang - Nucleus, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC) represents a critical passage through the
nuclear envelope for nuclear import and export that impacts nearly every cellular process at …

Modeling the nucleoporins that form the hairy pores

K Huang, I Szleifer - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Sitting on the nuclear envelope, nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) control the molecular
transport between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Without definite open or close states, the …

Nucleocytoplasmic transport of intrinsically disordered proteins studied by high‐speed super‐resolution microscopy

SL Junod, JM Kelich, J Ma, W Yang - Protein Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Both natively folded and intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) destined for the nucleus
need to transport through the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) in eukaryotic cells. NPCs …

Deciphering vesicle-assisted transport mechanisms in cytoplasm to cilium trafficking

M Tingey, A Ruba, Z Jiang, W Yang - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The cilium, a pivotal organelle crucial for cell signaling and proper cell function, relies on
meticulous macromolecular transport from the cytoplasm for its formation and maintenance …