A minimal construct of nuclear-import receptor Karyopherin-β2 defines the regions critical for chaperone and disaggregation activity

CM Fare, K Rhine, A Lam, S Myong, J Shorter - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
Karyopherin-β2 (Kapβ2) is a nuclear-import receptor that recognizes proline-tyrosine
nuclear localization signals of diverse cytoplasmic cargo for transport to the nucleus. Kapβ2 …

Conserved loop of a phase modifier endows protein condensates with fluidity

H Kawamukai, M Matsusaki, T Tanimoto, M Watabe… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Dipeptide repeats (DPRs) that are gene products from abnormal hexanucleotide repeat
expansion in C9orf72 trigger amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) through unknown …

ENGINEERING KAPβ2 TO DISAGGREGATE DISEASE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS

C Fare - 2022 - repository.upenn.edu
Neurodegenerative diseases result from a failure to maintain proteostasis, and a major
hallmark of neurodegeneration is the accumulation of aggregated protein deposits in the …