Davis, LK;
Šarić, A;
Hoogenboom, BW;
Zilman, A;
(2021)
Physical modelling of multivalent interactions in the nuclear pore complex.
Biophysical Journal
, 120
(9)
pp. 1565-1577.
10.1016/j.bpj.2021.01.039.
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Abstract
In the nuclear pore complex (NPC), intrinsically disordered proteins (FG Nups) along with their interactions with more globular proteins called nuclear transport receptors (NTRs) are vital to the selectivity of transport into and out of the cell nucleus. While such interactions can be modelled at different levels of coarse graining, in-vitro experimental data have been quantitatively described by minimal models that describe FG Nups as cohesive homogeneous polymers and NTRs as uniformly cohesive spheres, where the heterogeneous effects have been smeared out. By definition, these minimal models do not account for the explicit heterogeneities in FG Nup sequences, essentially a string of cohesive and non-cohesive polymer units, and at the NTR surface. Here, we develop computational and analytical models that do take into account such heterogeneity in a minimal fashion, and compare them to experimental data on single-molecule interactions between FG Nups and NTRs. Overall, we find that the heterogeneous nature of FG Nups and NTRs does play a role in determining equilibrium binding properties, but is of much greater significance when it comes to unbinding and binding kinetics. Using our models, we predict how binding equilibria and kinetics depend on the distribution of cohesive blocks in the FG Nup sequences and of the binding pockets at the NTR surface, with multivalency playing a key role. Finally, we observe that single-molecule binding kinetics has a rather minor influence on the diffusion of NTRs in polymer melts consisting of FG-Nup-like sequences.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Physical modelling of multivalent interactions in the nuclear pore complex |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.01.039 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2021.01.039 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10122925 |
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