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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-1-19
pubmed:abstractText
The objective of this investigation was to characterize intranuclear accumulation of oligonucleotides and their adducts with non-karyophilic compounds in cultured animal cells and thus to present a model system for nucleic acid-mediated nuclear import. In digitonin-permeabilized cells, nuclear uptake of 3'-FITC-labeled, single-stranded 25-mer oligodeoxyribonucleotides was independent of added cytosolic protein, largely energy-dependent, inhibitable by wheat germ agglutinin but not by N-ethylmaleimide, and a function of their base composition. When coupled to FITC-labeled streptavidin or streptavidin-bovine serum albumin conjugates, the oligonucleotides delivered the proteins to the nuclear interior with rates roughly proportional to their karyophilicity as free molecules. Transport activity was also demonstrated for single-stranded oligoribonucleotides. The transport was energy-dependent, inhibited by GMP-PNP and wheat germ agglutinin, but unaffected by N-ethylmaleimide. Nuclear import of oligo(dG)25/protein adducts needed 3 to 4 oligonucleotide signals per complex and the signal had to be at least 15 nucleotides long. Micro-injection experiments showed that the results obtained with digitonin-permeabilized cells are not artifacts of a quasi-intact cellular system. These data were confirmed by electron microscopy employing complexes of oligodeoxyribonucleotides with streptavidin-peroxidase-bovine serum albumin-1 nm gold. In permeabilized cells, the complexes docked to the cytoplasmic face of the nuclear pore complexes, were translocated through the central pore channel and accumulated in large quantities in the nuclear baskets before they were released into the nucleoplasm. These results demonstrate that nuclear uptake of oligonucleotides and their complexes is an active process mediated by nuclear pore complexes, which, at least regarding its cytoplasmic component, is different from the pathway requiring classical nuclear localization signals.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA, Single-Stranded, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Digitonin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Ethylmaleimide, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Serum Albumin, Bovine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Streptavidin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Wheat Germ Agglutinins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/fluorescein isothiocyanate bovine...
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0248-4900
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
90
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
407-26
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Biological Transport, Active, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Cell Membrane Permeability, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Cell Nucleus, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-DNA, Single-Stranded, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Digitonin, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Ethylmaleimide, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Fibroblasts, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Macropodidae, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Microinjections, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Microscopy, Confocal, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Nuclear Envelope, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Serum Albumin, Bovine, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Streptavidin, pubmed-meshheading:9835015-Wheat Germ Agglutinins
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Active nuclear import of single-stranded oligonucleotides and their complexes with non-karyophilic macromolecules.
pubmed:affiliation
Max-Planck-Institut für Zellbiologie, Ladenburg/Heidelberg, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article