Artificial nanopores that mimic the transport selectivity of the nuclear pore complex

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7232, 2009, Pages 1023-1027

  Jovanovic Talisman, Tijana ^a   Tetenbaum Novatt, Jaclyn ^a   McKenney, Anna Sophia ^a   Zilman, Anton ^b   Peters, Reiner ^c   Rout, Michael P ^a   Chait, Brian T ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; NUCLEOPORIN; PHENYLALANINE;

CARGO; CYTOPLASM; IMPORT; MEMBRANE; PROTEIN; TRAFFICKING;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NANOPORE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; GLYCINE; GOLD; KARYOPHERINS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHENYLALANINE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 60549102848     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07600     Document Type: Article

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