Perspective on the metazoan nuclear pore complex

Nucleus

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Maimon, Tal ^a   Medalia, Ohad ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cryo electron tomography; Nuclear envelope; Nuclear pore complex; Xenopus oocytes

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPORIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; OOCYTE; OUTER MEMBRANE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; XENOPUS; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR PORE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

METAZOA;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; OOCYTES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77957687133     PISSN: 19491034     EISSN: 19491042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/nucl.1.5.12332     Document Type: Article

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