Kim SJ, Fernandez-Martinez J, Sampathkumar P, Martel A, Matsui T, Tsuruta H, Weiss T, Markina-Inarrairaegui A, Bonanno JB, Sauder JM, Burley SK, Almo SC, Rout M, Sali A

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is the sole passageway for the transport of macromolecules across the nuclear envelope. Nup133, a major component in the Y- shaped Nup84 complex, is an essential scaffold protein of the NPC's outer ring structure. Here, we describe an integrative modeling approach that produces atomic models ...

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for multiple states of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) Nup133, based on the crystal structures of the sequence segments and their homologs including the related Vanderwaltozyma polyspora (Vp) Nup133 residues 55 to 502 (VpNup133(55-502)) determined in this study, small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) profiles for 18 constructs of ScNup133 and one construct of VpNup133, and 23 negative-stain electron microscopy (EM) class averages of ScNup133(2-1157). Using our integrative approach, we then computed a multi-state structural model of the full-length ScNup133, followed by validation with mutational studies and 45 chemical cross-links determined by mass spectrometry. Finally, the model of ScNup133 allowed us to annotate a potential ArfGAP1 lipid packing sensor (ALPS) motif in Sc and VpNup133 and discuss its potential significance in the context of the whole NPC; we suggest that ALPS motifs are scattered throughout the NPC's scaffold of all eukaryotes and play a major role in the assembly and membrane anchoring of the NPC in the nuclear envelope. Our results are consistent with a common evolutionary origin of Nup133 with membrane coating complexes (the protocoatomer hypothesis); the presence of the ALPS motifs in coatomer-like nucleoporins suggests an ancestral mechanism for membrane recognition present in early membrane coating complexes.

Date: Aug. 19, 2014

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