Nuclear Pores (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Nuclear Pores

Caption

Nuclear pores, the all-important channels that control the flow of information in and out of a cell's nucleus, assemble during interphase, and following mitosis, when the nuclear membrane reforms around the segregated chromosomes to create two identical nuclei. The image above shows fully assembled nuclear pores in red and early nuclear pore intermediates in green.

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Image: Courtesy of Dr. Jessica Talamas, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

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