Comparative spatial localization of protein-A-tagged and authentic yeast nuclear pore complex proteins by immunogold electron microscopy.

Abstract:

:The nuclear pore complex (NPC) mediates protein and RNP import in and RNA and RNP export out of the nucleus of eukaryotic cells. Due to its genetic tractability, yeast offers a versatile system for investigating the chemical composition and molecular architecture of the NPC. In this context, protein A tagging is a commonly used tool for characterizing and localizing yeast NPC proteins (nucleoporins). By preembedding anti-protein A immunogold electron microscopy (immunogold EM), we have localized two yeast nucleoporins, Nsp1p and Nic96p, in mutant yeast strains recombinantly expressing these nucleoporins tagged with four (Nsp1p) or two (Nic96p) IgG binding domains of protein A (i.e., ProtA-Nsp1p and ProtA-Nic96p). We have compared the location of the recombinant fusion proteins ProtA-Nsp1p and ProtA-Nic96p (i.e., as specified by their protein A tag) to the location of authentic Nsp1p and Nic96p (i.e., as defined by the epitopes recognized by corresponding nucleoporin antibodies) and found all of them to reside at the same three NPC sites. Hence, recombinant expression and protein A tagging of the nucleoporins Nsp1p and Nic96p have not caused any significant mislocation of the fusion proteins and thus enabled mapping of these two yeast nucleoporins at the ultrastructural level in a faithful manner.

journal_name

J Struct Biol

authors

Fahrenkrog B,Aris JP,Hurt EC,Panté N,Aebi U

doi

10.1006/jsbi.2000.4223

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-04-01 00:00:00

pages

295-305

issue

2-3

eissn

1047-8477

issn

1095-8657

pii

S1047-8477(00)94223-0

journal_volume

129

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