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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 112, Issue 12 2043-2048, Copyright © 1999 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Signal-mediated nuclear transport in the amoeba

CM Feldherr and D Akin
Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. feldherr@anatomy.med.ufl.edu

The evolutionary changes that occur in signal-mediated nuclear transport would be expected to reflect an increasing need to regulate nucleocytoplasmic exchanges as the complexity of organisms increases. This could involve changes in both the composition and structure of the pore complex, as well as the cytosolic factors that mediate transport. In this regard, we investigated the transport process in amoebae (Amoeba proteus and Chaos carolinensis), primitive cells that would be expected to have less stringent regulatory requirements than more complex organisms. Colloidal gold particles, coated with bovine serum albumin (BSA) conjugated with simple (large T) nuclear localization signals (NLSs), bipartite (nucleoplasmin) NLSs or mutant NLSs, were used to assay nuclear import. It was found that in amoebae (1) the diameter of the particles that are able to enter the nucleoplasm is significantly less than in vertebrate cells, (2) the simple NLS is more effective in mediating nuclear import than the bipartite NLS, and (3) the nucleoporins do not appear to be glycosylated. Evidence was also obtained suggesting that, in amoebae, the simple NLS can mediate nuclear export.
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