Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Nuclear export of the pre-60S ribosomal subunit through single nuclear pores observed in real time

  • Jan Andreas Ruland,
  • Annika Marie Krüger,
  • Kerstin Dörner,
  • Rohan Bhatia,
  • Sabine Wirths,
  • Daniel Poetes,
  • Ulrike Kutay,
  • Jan Peter Siebrasse,
  • Ulrich Kubitscheck

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26323-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Ribosomal biogenesis is known to require nuclear to cytoplasmic export, but the precise kinetics remain unclear. Here, the authors use super-resolution confocal microscopy and single molecule tracking to visualize export of single pre-60S particles through nuclear pore complexes.