Calcium-mediated structural changes of native nuclear pore complexes monitored by time-lapse atomic force microscopy

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 287, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 741-752

  Stoffler, Daniel ^a   Goldie, Kenneth N ^b   Feja, Bernhard ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nuclear calcium signalling; Nuclear pore complex; Nucleocytoplasmic transport; Time lapse atomic force microscopy; Transmission electron cryomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BUFFER; CALCIUM ION; ION;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; INTERPHASE; ION TRANSPORT; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033537992     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2637     Document Type: Article

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