Section 2: Intracellular Trafficking

  

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WEEK 1: Transport through the nuclear pore complex (L1/2)
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Moore, M. S., and Blobel, G. (1993). The GTP-binding protein Ran/TC4 is required for protein import into the nucleus. Nature 365, 661-3.
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Moore, M. S., and Blobel, G. (1992). The two steps of nuclear import, targeting to the nuclear envelope and translocation through the nuclear pore, require different cytosolic factors. Cell 69, 939-50.
3
Isolation of a protein that is essential for the first step of nuclear protein import. (Cell 79, 767-778).
4
The yeast nuclear pore: composition and architecture (JCB 148: 635)
5
The NPC may operate by hydrophobic exclusion (EMBO J, 21: 2664)
6
Transport into and out of the Nucleus (Review)
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Regulating access to the genome: nucleocytoplasmic transport during the cell cycle (Review)

 
WEEK 2: RNA transport, maturation & localization (L1/2)
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RNA export (Review)
2
RNA transport and local control of translation (Review)
3
Gene gating? (Casolari et al, Cell 2004 117:427)
4
Specificity and regulation of mRNA decay (PNAS 2002 99:5860)
5 mRNA turnover in cytoplasmic p bodies (Science 2003 300:805)
6
Definition of nonsense codons for NMD (EMBO J 1998 17:3484)
7**
FG-repeats can form a hydrogel (Science 5800:815-817)
 
WEEK 3: Translocation into the ER and vesicular transport (L1, L2)
1
Characterization of the secretory pathway by Novick, Field and Schekman (classic paper)
2
In vitro assay to monitor Golgi transport by Rothman and colleagues (classic paper)
3
Signal sequence recognition and protein targeting. (Review)
4
Structure of the protein conducting channel.
5
Vesicle budding and fusion. (Review)
6
Structure of the COPII coat.
7**
BiP acts as a molecular ratchet during posttranslational transport across the ER membrane.

WEEK 4: Secretion & cell polarity (LI, L2)
1
The Exocyst (Review)
2
Analysis of exocytosis in epithelial cells (Nat Cell Biol 2003 2:126-36)
3
Polarized targeting of the LDL receptor (Cell 2001 105:575-85)
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The Golgi matrix during mitosis.

5
Procollagen transport: evidence for cisternal maturation.
6**
Complexin and synaptotagmin regulate synaptic exocytosis (Science 2006 313:676 - 680)
 
WEEK 5: Endocytosis, organelle inheritance and transport into mitochondria (L1/L2)
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Distribution of Golgi membranes during mitosis
2
The Golgi matrix during mitosis.
3
Procollagen transport: evidence for cisternal maturation.
4
Protein import into mitochondria (Review)
5**
In vitro assay to monitor mitochondrial fusion (Science 2004 305:1747-1752)

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