| Literature DB >> 17418822 |
Mátyás Gorjánácz1, Andreas Jaedicke, Iain W Mattaj.
Abstract
The nuclear envelope (NE) of the eukaryotic cell provides an essential barrier that separates the nuclear compartment from the cytoplasm. In addition, the NE is involved in essential functions such as nuclear stability, regulation of gene expression, centrosome separation and nuclear migration and positioning. In metazoa the NE breaks down and re-assembles around the segregated chromatids during each cell division. In this review we discuss the molecular constituents of the Caenorhabditis elegans NE and describe their role in post-mitotic NE re-formation, as well as the usefulness of C. elegans as an in vivo system for analyzing NE dynamics.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17418822 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.03.052
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124