Mechanics and functional consequences of nuclear deformations

Y Kalukula, AD Stephens, J Lammerding… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2022 - nature.com
As the home of cellular genetic information, the nucleus has a critical role in determining cell
fate and function in response to various signals and stimuli. In addition to biochemical …

Bringing structure to cell biology with cryo-electron tomography

LN Young, E Villa - Annual review of biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy have marked only the beginning of the
potential of this technique. To bring structure into cell biology, the modality of cryo-electron …

AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

S Mosalaganti, A Obarska-Kosinska, M Siggel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The eukaryotic nucleus protects the genome and is enclosed by the two
membranes of the nuclear envelope. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) perforate the nuclear …

Ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy

SCM Reinhardt, LA Masullo, I Baudrexel, PR Steen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Fluorescence microscopy, with its molecular specificity, is one of the major characterization
methods used in the life sciences to understand complex biological systems. Super …

Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo

CE Zimmerli, M Allegretti, V Rantos, SK Goetz… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The nucleus harbors and protects the genetic information in eukaryotes. It
is surrounded by the nuclear envelope, which separates the nucleoplasm from the cytosol …

Predicting the structure of large protein complexes using AlphaFold and Monte Carlo tree search

P Bryant, G Pozzati, W Zhu, A Shenoy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
AlphaFold can predict the structure of single-and multiple-chain proteins with very high
accuracy. However, the accuracy decreases with the number of chains, and the available …

Mechanical force application to the nucleus regulates nucleocytoplasmic transport

I Andreu, I Granero-Moya, NR Chahare, K Clein… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Mechanical force controls fundamental cellular processes in health and disease, and
increasing evidence shows that the nucleus both experiences and senses applied forces …

Lipid saturation controls nuclear envelope function

A Romanauska, A Köhler - Nature Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The nuclear envelope (NE) is a spherical double membrane with elastic properties. How NE
shape and elasticity are regulated by lipid chemistry is unknown. Here we discover lipid acyl …

Architecture of the cytoplasmic face of the nuclear pore

CJ Bley, S Nie, GW Mobbs, S Petrovic, AT Gres, X Liu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cytoplasmic face of the human NPC. Near-atomic composite structure of
the NPC generated by docking high-resolution crystal structures into a cryo‑ET …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive structure and functional adaptations of the yeast nuclear pore complex

CW Akey, D Singh, C Ouch, I Echeverria, I Nudelman… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) mediate the nucleocytoplasmic transport of
macromolecules. Here we provide a structure of the isolated yeast NPC in which the inner …