Nucleoplasmin

Nucleoplasmin family
Drawing of the pentameric structure
Illustration of the structure of nucleoplasmin
Identifiers
SymbolNPM
InterProIPR004301

Nucleoplasmin, the first identified molecular chaperone[1] is a thermostable acidic protein with a pentameric structure. The protein was first isolated from Xenopus species[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Dingwall C, Laskey RA (February 1990). "Nucleoplasmin: the archetypal molecular chaperone". Seminars in Cell Biology. 1 (1): 11–17. PMID 1983266.
  2. ^ Rice P, Garduño R, Itoh T, Katagiri C, Ausio J (June 1995). "Nucleoplasmin-mediated decondensation of Mytilus sperm chromatin. Identification and partial characterization of a nucleoplasmin-like protein with sperm-nuclei decondensing activity in Mytilus californianus". Biochemistry. 34 (23): 7563–7568. doi:10.1021/bi00023a001. PMID 7779801.
  3. ^ Dingwall C, Sharnick SV, Laskey RA (September 1982). "A polypeptide domain that specifies migration of nucleoplasmin into the nucleus". Cell. 30 (2): 449–458. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(82)90242-2. PMID 6814762.
  4. ^ Tejun S, Yaozhou Z (2007). "Nucleoplasmin, an Important Nuclear Chaperone". Chinese Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 23 (9): 718–723.