Friday 24 August 2012

Nucleopores

Although I deal with a lot of genetics and genomics issues for my class, I am fascinated with proteins.  They are three-dimensional tools that have, through evolution, become optimized to carry out their functions effectively.

Here's a simulation of a substrate's point of view about what it's like to be transported into the nucleus through a nucleopore!



You can see the effect of nucleopores in this video.

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