Determining How the Nuclear Pore Complex Works (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Determining How the Nuclear Pore Complex Works

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A team of biochemists led by Caltech's André Hoelz has solved the architecture of the nuclear pore complex's complicated inner ring, a subcomplex that is central to the cellular machine's ability to serve as a barrier and transport facilitator. In the process, they disproved many previously held ideas about how the inner ring works.

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Lance Hayashida/Caltech and the Hoelz Laboratory/Caltech

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