RGD Reference Report - Separate binding sites on nuclear transport factor 2 (NTF2) for GDP-Ran and the phenylalanine-rich repeat regions of nucleoporins p62 and Nsp1p. - Rat Genome Database

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Separate binding sites on nuclear transport factor 2 (NTF2) for GDP-Ran and the phenylalanine-rich repeat regions of nucleoporins p62 and Nsp1p.

Authors: Clarkson, WD  Kent, HM  Stewart, M 
Citation: Clarkson WD, etal., J Mol Biol. 1996 Nov 8;263(4):517-24.
RGD ID: 9831385
Pubmed: PMID:8918934   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1006/jmbi.1996.0594   (Journal Full-text)

Nuclear transport factor 2 (NTF2) facilitates nuclear protein import through nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). Bacterially expressed rat NTF2 exists in solution as dimers and, when bound to Sepharose beads, is able to interact specifically with both the Ras-like GTPase Ran, and the xFxFG repeat containing domains of nucleoporins p62 (vertebrate) and Nsp1p (yeast). These interactions are sufficiently strong and specific to enable native Ran and p62 to be isolated from crude rat liver homogenates. Comparison of the sequences of the xFxFG repeat regions of p62 and Nsplp indicated that NTF2 was probably interacting with the phenylalanine-containing core of these repeats and not the intervening hydrophilic linkers. Ran and p62 do not compete with one another for binding to NTF2, indicating that they bind to different sites on NTF2. These interactions could help target Ran and NTF2 to a series of putative docking sites for the importin-substrate complex located along the central transport channel of the NPC and so facilitate the passage of import material being transported from the cytoplasm into the nucleus.




Molecular Function

  


Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Nup62  (nucleoporin 62) Nutf2  (nuclear transport factor 2) Ran  (RAN, member RAS oncogene family)