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Pietro Fontana1,2, Ying Dong1,2, Xiong Pi1,2

  • 1Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 9, 2022
PubMed
まとめ

研究者は冷凍電子顕微鏡とAlphaFoldを使用して,核孔複合体 (NPC) の細胞質環の原子モデルを構築しました. これは,真核細胞の構造と機能に関する新しい洞察を提供します.

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