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bioRxiv 2023 Apr 21; doi: 10.1101/2023.04.19.537556.
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Nuclear growth and import can be uncoupled.

Chen P , Mishra S , Levy DL .


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What drives nuclear growth? Studying nuclei assembled in Xenopus egg extract and focusing on importin α/β-mediated nuclear import, we show that, while nuclear growth depends on nuclear import, nuclear growth and import can be uncoupled. Nuclei containing fragmented DNA grew slowly despite exhibiting normal import rates, suggesting nuclear import itself is insufficient to drive nuclear growth. Nuclei containing more DNA grew larger but imported more slowly. Altering chromatin modifications caused nuclei to grow less while still importing to the same extent or to grow larger without increasing nuclear import. Increasing heterochromatin in vivo in sea urchin embryos increased nuclear growth but not import. These data suggest that nuclear import is not the primary driving force for nuclear growth. Instead, live imaging showed that nuclear growth preferentially occurred at sites of high chromatin density and lamin addition, whereas small nuclei lacking DNA exhibited less lamin incorporation. Our hypothesized model is that lamin incorporation and nuclear growth are driven by chromatin mechanical properties, which depend on and can be tuned by nuclear import.

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