Nuclear envelope: membrane bending for pore formation?
Membrane-shaping proteins known as reticulons help to sculpt the endoplasmic reticulum; recent findings indicate that they also play a role in the formation of nuclear-pore-complex-associated pores in the nuclear envelope.
Antonin
Wolfram
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Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Spemannstrasse 39, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. wolfram.antonin@tuebingen.mpg.de
D000818:Animals; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009685:Nuclear Envelope / Q000378:metabolism*; D022022:Nuclear Pore / Q000378:metabolism*; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000378:metabolism
D008565:Membrane Proteins; D020033:Protein Isoforms