Nuclear envelope: membrane bending for pore formation?

Wolfram Antonin

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.053

Nuclear envelope: membrane bending for pore formation?

Curr Biol. 2009 May 26;19(10):R410-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.053.

Author

Wolfram Antonin¹

Affiliation

¹ Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Spemannstrasse 39, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. wolfram.antonin@tuebingen.mpg.de

PMID: 19467209
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.053

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

Animals
Endoplasmic Reticulum / metabolism
Membrane Proteins / metabolism*
Nuclear Envelope / metabolism*
Nuclear Pore / metabolism*
Protein Isoforms / metabolism

Substances

Membrane Proteins
Protein Isoforms