Research Reveals Key Interaction That Opens the Channel Into the Cell's Nucleus

Friday, June 5, 2015 - 15:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Rockefeller University scientists have uncovered crucial steps in the dynamic dance that dilates and constricts the nuclear pore complex -- the latest advance in their ongoing efforts to tease apart the mechanism by which its central channel admits specific molecules. Their work has shown the nuclear pore complex is much more than the inert structure it was once thought to be.

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