Snapshots of nuclear pore complexes in action captured by cryo-electron tomography

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7162, 2007, Pages 611-615

  Beck, Martin ^a   Lǔí, Vladan ^a   Förster, Friedrich ^a   Baumeister, Wolfgang ^a   Medalia, Ohad ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ELECTRON; EUKARYOTE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYROELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34948891095     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06170     Document Type: Article

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