The nuclear pore complex and nuclear transport

SR Wente, MP Rout - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Internal membrane bound structures sequester all genetic material in eukaryotic cells. The
most prominent of these structures is the nucleus, which is bounded by a double membrane …

Pre-mRNA processing reaches back totranscription and ahead to translation

MJ Moore, NJ Proudfoot - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
The pathway from gene activation in the nucleus to mRNA translation and decay at specific
locations in the cytoplasm is both streamlined and highly interconnected. This review …

Arabidopsis homolog of the yeast TREX‐2 mRNA export complex: components and anchoring nucleoporin

Q Lu, X Tang, G Tian, F Wang, K Liu… - The Plant …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are vital to nuclear–cytoplasmic communication in
eukaryotes. The yeast NPC‐associated TREX‐2 complex, also known as the Thp1–Sac3 …

Epigenetic principles and mechanisms underlying nervous system functions in health and disease

MF Mehler - Progress in neurobiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Epigenetics and epigenomic medicine encompass a new science of brain and behavior that
are already providing unique insights into the mechanisms underlying brain development …

Genomic mechanisms of evolved physiological plasticity in killifish distributed along an environmental salinity gradient

A Whitehead, JL Roach, S Zhang, F Galvez - Proceedings of the National …, 2011 - pnas.org
Adaptive variation tends to emerge clinally along environmental gradients or discretely
among habitats with limited connectivity. However, in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) …

The yeast nuclear pore complex and transport through it

JD Aitchison, MP Rout - Genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Exchange of macromolecules between the nucleus and cytoplasm is a key regulatory event
in the expression of a cell's genome. This exchange requires a dedicated transport …

DNA zip codes control an ancient mechanism for gene targeting to the nuclear periphery

S Ahmed, DG Brickner, WH Light, I Cajigas… - Nature cell …, 2010 - nature.com
Many genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are recruited to the nuclear periphery after
transcriptional activation. We have identified two gene recruitment sequences (GRS I and II) …

Dynamic DNA methylation: a prime candidate for genomic metaplasticity and behavioral adaptation

D Baker-Andresen, VS Ratnu, TW Bredy - Trends in neurosciences, 2013 - cell.com
DNA methylation was once considered to be a static epigenetic modification whose primary
function was restricted to directing the development of cellular phenotype. However, it is now …

Gene location and DNA density determine transcription factor distributions in Escherichia coli

TE Kuhlman, EC Cox - Molecular systems biology, 2012 - embopress.org
The diffusion coefficient of the transcription factor LacI within living Escherichia coli has been
measured directly by in vivo tracking to be D= 0.4 μ m2/s. At this rate, simple models of …

Tissue- and Expression Level–Specific Chromatin Loo** at Maize b1 Epialleles

M Louwers, R Bader, M Haring, R van Driel… - The Plant …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This work examines the involvement of chromatin loo** in the transcriptional regulation of
two epialleles of the maize (Zea mays) b1 gene, BI and B'. These two epialleles are tissue …