NF-AT activation requires suppression of Crm1-dependent export by calcineurin

Jiangyu Zhu and Frank McKeon ()
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Jiangyu Zhu: Harvard Medical School
Frank McKeon: Harvard Medical School

Nature, 1999, vol. 398, issue 6724, 256-260

Abstract: Abstract Nuclear import of the NF-AT transcription factors during T-cell activation requires the calcium-activated phosphatase calcineurin, which unmasks nuclear-location signals on NF-AT (1–5). We show here that the nuclear import of NF-ATs is not sufficient to activate NF-AT target genes, as NF-ATs are subject to a futile cycling across the nuclear envelope owing to engagement with the exportin protein Crm1 (6–8). Calcineurin suppresses this futile cycling by a non-catalytic mechanism involving the masking of nuclear export signals on NF-AT targeted by Crm1. This clustering of binding sites for calcineurin and Crm1 on NF-AT establishes an inherent competition between these molecules that imparts exquisite calcium sensitivity to the shuttling dynamics of the NF-AT transcription factors. Such a balance between nuclear import and export may regulate the action of other transcription factors.

Date: 1999
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