Proposed Architecture of the Inner Ring of the Nuclear Pore Complex (image)

California Institute of Technology

Caption

This is the architecture of the inner ring of the NPC proposed by the Caltech-led team. The channel nuceloporin complex (labeled here as CNT) is attached at only one site, the adaptor nucleoprin Nic96. This helps prove that the channel does not change shape or dilate.

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Hoelz Laboratory/Caltech

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