| ARM | Armadillo |
| CD | Circular dichroism |
| DOSY | Diffusion ordered spectroscopy |
| DIPSI | Decoupling in the presence of scalar interactions |
| IBB | Importin β-binding domain |
| IDP | Intrinsically disordered protein |
| Impα3 | Human importin α3 isoform (residues 1–521) |
| ∆Impα3 | Truncated species of Impα3 (residues 64-521) depleted of the IBB |
| ITC | Isothermal titration calorimetry |
| NLS | Nuclear localization sequence |
| NLS-NUPR1L | Nuclear localization sequence of NUPR1L (residues 51–74) |
| NOE | Nuclear Overhauser effect |
| NOESY | Nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy |
| NPC | Nuclear pore complex |
| NUPR1 | Nuclear protein 1 |
| NUPR1L | The NUPR1-like paralogue |
| TOCSY | Total correlation spectroscopy |
| TPPI | Time-proportional-phase incrementation technique |
| UV | Ultraviolet |