The human nuclear pore complex as revealed by cryo-electron tomography

Structure

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 998-1006

  Maimon, Tal ^a   Elad, Nadav ^a,c   Dahan, Idit ^a   Medalia, Ohad ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PURIFICATION;

CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PORE; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861966443     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: 18784186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2012.03.025     Document Type: Article

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