Nuclear morphology: when round kernels do the Charleston.
New studies in Drosophila have identified a novel nuclear envelope protein with a farnesyl moiety, termed Kugelkern/Charleston, that helps regulate the size, shape and position of cellular blastoderm nuclei.
Melcer
Shai
S
Department of Genetics, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Gruenbaum
Yosef
Y
D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000196:embryology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D009685:Nuclear Envelope / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*
D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; C511714:kuk protein, Drosophila