New imaging reveals the secrets of cellular traffic control
Siegfried Musser, PhD, and his team in the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics at the Texas A&M College of Medicine have ...
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nuclear pore
The nuclear pore is a protein-lined channel in the nuclear envelope that regulates the transportation of molecules between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. In eukaryotic cells, the nucleus is ...
New function discovered for protein important in leukemia
In addition to exporting materials out of the nucleus, the protein, called Exportin-1 (also called Xpo1 or Crm1), seems to play a role in promoting gene transcription, the process that creates RNA ...
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Nuclear Pores Come into Sharper Focus
Each nuclear pore complex (NPC) consists of more than 1,000 individual protein subunits with a total molecular mass of approximately 120 million daltons—the equivalent of more than 6.5 million water ...
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nuclear pore
The nuclear pore is a protein-lined channel in the nuclear envelope that regulates the transportation of molecules between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. In eukaryotic cells, the nucleus is ...