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Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2006, p. 3170-3180, Vol. 26, No. 8
0270-7306/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.26.8.3170-3180.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Kap120 Functions as a Nuclear Import Receptor for Ribosome Assembly Factor Rpf1 in Yeast{dagger}

Stefanie Caesar, Markus Greiner, and Gabriel Schlenstedt*

Medizinische Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität des Saarlandes, D-66421 Homburg, Germany

Received 28 August 2005/ Returned for modification 24 October 2005/ Accepted 30 January 2006

The nucleocytoplasmic exchange of macromolecules is mediated by receptors specialized in passage through the nuclear pore complex. The majority of these receptors belong to the importin ß protein family, which has 14 members in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nine importins carry various cargos from the cytoplasm into the nucleus, whereas four exportins mediate nuclear export. Kap120 is the only receptor whose transport cargo has not been found previously. Here, we characterize Kap120 as an importin for the ribosome maturation factor Rpf1, which was identified in a two-hybrid screen. Kap120 binds directly to Rpf1 in vitro and is released by Ran-GTP. At least three parallel import pathways exist for Rpf1, since nuclear import is defective in strains with the importins Kap120, Kap114, and Nmd5 deleted. Both kap120 and rpf1 mutants accumulate large ribosomal subunits in the nucleus. The nuclear accumulation of 60S ribosomal subunits in kap120 mutants is abolished upon RPF1 overexpression, indicating that Kap120 does not function in the actual ribosomal export step but rather in import of ribosome maturation factors.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Medizinische Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität des Saarlandes, D-66421 Homburg, Germany. Phone: 49 6841 1647912. Fax: 49 6841 1647938. E-mail: bcgsch{at}uniklinik-saarland.de.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://mcb.asm.org/.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2006, p. 3170-3180, Vol. 26, No. 8
0270-7306/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.26.8.3170-3180.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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