Nuclear pore complex structure and dynamics revealed by cryoelectron tomography

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5700, 2004, Pages 1387-1390

  Beck, Martin ^a   Förster, Friedrich ^a   Ecke, Mary ^a   Plitzko, Jürgen M ^a   Melchior, Frauke ^a,b   Gerisch, Günther ^a   Baumeister, Wolfgang ^a   Medalia, Ohad ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

CRYOELECTRON; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEXES (NPC);

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; AVERAGING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CENTRAL PLUG TRANSPORTER; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CRYOELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DYNAMICS; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUCLEAR PORE; TOMOGRAPHY;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 8844226004     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104808     Document Type: Article

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