Nuclear pore complexes harbor new class of gene regulators
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 00:15
in Biology & Nature
Nuclear pore complexes are best known as the communication channels that regulate the passage of all molecules to and from a cell's nucleus. Researchers, however, have shown that some of the pores' constituent proteins, called nucleoporins, pull double duty as transcription factors regulating the activity of genes active during early development.