Structural and functional adaptations of the mammalian nuclear envelope to meet the meiotic requirements

Nucleus

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 93-101

  Link, Jana ^a,b   Jahn, Daniel ^a,c   Alsheimer, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b CIBIV Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Germ cells; KASH domain proteins; LINC complex; Meiosis; Nuclear envelope; SUN domain proteins; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KASH PROTEIN; LAMIN A; LAMIN B; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PLECTIN; SUN DOMAIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPINDLE POLE BODY; TELOMERE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MAMMAL; METABOLISM;

MAMMALIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; TELOMERE;

EID: 84928104036     PISSN: 19491034     EISSN: 19491042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19491034.2015.1004941     Document Type: Article

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