Effect of charge, hydrophobicity, and sequence of nucleoporins on the translocation of model particles through the nuclear pore complex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3363-3368

  Tagliazucchi, Mario ^a   Peleg, Orit ^b,e   Kröger, Martin ^c   Rabin, Yitzhak ^d   Szleifer, Igal ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grain model; Disordered protein; Mean force potential; Non additivity; Nuclear transport

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPORIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84874495608     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212909110     Document Type: Article

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