Susan Wente (born 1962) is an American cell biologist and academic administrator currently serving as the 14th President of Wake Forest University.
She was a student research collaborator with Marshall Elzinga in the Department of Biology at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.
Wente also completed her undergraduate thesis studies under the direction of Alice B. Fulton in the Department of Biochemistry.
She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Günter Blobel at the Laboratory of Cell Biology at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University in New York City from 1989 - 1993.
[8] Wente was announced as the 14th and first female President of Wake Forest University on January 29, 2021, and assumed office on July 1, 2021.
It provides evidence that these factors directly affect FG domain function and mRNA export.
The article suggests that the cell produces these inositides in localized areas in order to create quick signals within the body.
The article also contains information regarding the way the cell responds to changing environments caused by extracellular stimuli which affect gene expression.
They conclude that proper NPC development is essential for physiological functioning, which if damaged, could cause improper cell division.
[19] Wente and her colleagues provide the first evidence that the Ran GTPase cycle is essential in order to build the nuclear pore complex (NPC).
They introduced mutant Ran factors and found that it caused nucleoporins and a poremembrane protein to be mislocalized.
In this article, Wente and her colleagues discuss the vast number of signal types, receptors, and proteins and how this suggests that there are many pathways for entrance to and exit from the nucleus.
[22] Wente and her colleagues investigated the enzyme aspartate transcarbamoylase and the amino acid residues that assist in making it a catalyst.