Functional architecture of the nuclear pore complex

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 557-584

  Grossman, Einat ^a   Medalia, Ohad ^a,b   Zwerger, Monika ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assembly; Cryo electron tomography; Gene regulation; Nucleocytoplasmic transport; Nucleoporin; Structure

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPORIN;

BIOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPAIR; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84861384878     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-050511-102328     Document Type: Review

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