Architecture of the Xenopus nuclear pore complex revealed by three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopy
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Architecture of the Xenopus nuclear pore complex revealed by three- dimensional cryo-electron microscopy
The nuclear pore complex spans the nuclear envelope and functions as a macromolecular transporter in the ATP-dependent process of nucleocytoplasmic transport. In this report, we present three dimensional (3D) structures for both membrane-associated and detergent-extracted Xenopus NPCs, imaged in frozen buffers by cryo-electron microscopy. A comparison of the differing configurations present in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0021-9525,1540-8140
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.122.1.1