| BLI | biolayer interferometry |
| CD | circular dichroism |
| DIPSI | decoupling in the presence of scalar interactions |
| DOSY | diffusion ordered spectroscopy |
| GFP | green fluorescent protein |
| IBB | importin β-binding domain |
| Impα3 | human importin α3 isoform (residues 1–521) |
| ΔImpα3 | IBB-depleted species of importin α3 (residues 64–521 of the intact protein) |
| NLS | nuclear localization sequence |
| NLS-Myc | peptide comprising the canonical nuclear localization sequence of Myc protein (residues 310–337 of the intact protein) |
| NMR | nuclear magnetic resonance |
| NOESY | nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy |
| NPC | nuclear pore complex |
| PDB | Protein Data Bank |
| TOCSY | total correlation spectroscopy |
| TSP | 3-(trimethylsilyl) propionic acid-2,2,3,3-2H4-sodium salt |
| UV | ultraviolet |