The nuclear basket of the nuclear pore complex is part of a higher- order filamentous network that is related to chromatin

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-58

  Arlucea, Jon ^a   Andrade, Ricardo ^a   Alonso, Raúl ^a   Aréchaga, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Intranuclear filaments; Nuclear pore complex; Nuclear ring

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032419950     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1998.4054     Document Type: Article

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