Flexible phenylalanine-glycine nucleoporins as entropic barriers to nucleocytoplasmic transport

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 9512-9517

  Lim, Roderick Y H ^a   Huang, Ning Ping ^a   Köser, Joachim ^a,c   Deng, Jie ^b   Aaron Lau, K H ^b,d   Schwarz Herion, Kyrill ^a   Fahrenkrog, Birthe ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c Concentris GmbH ^*  (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Force spectroscopy; Nanomechanics; Natively unfolded proteins; Nuclear pore complex; Selective gating

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; NUCLEOPORIN; PHENYLALANINE; POLYMER; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ENTROPY; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; DIPEPTIDES; ENTROPY; GOLD; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PLIABILITY;

EID: 33745451968     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0603521103     Document Type: Article

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