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  • noun Any of a family of porins that facilitates transport through nuclear pores in the nuclear envelope of cells

Etymologies

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nucleo- +‎ porin

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Examples

  • Additionally, reduction in expression of nucleoporin 153 by siRNA targeting reduced ERK1/2 nuclear activity in cancer cells.

    Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010

  • Since nuclear pore complexes are part of the nuclear membrane, which delineates the cell nucleus, it had been assumed that when a gene was regulated by a nucleoporin, it somehow had to make its way to the periphery of the nucleus, adjacent to the nuclear pore.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • For more than a decade, however, scientists had known that when the protein called Nup98, a nucleoporin, abnormally fuses with certain proteins that regulate gene expression, the marriage causes leukemia.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • ± 0.00E+00 0.92 1.08 - XP_133073. 3 PREDICTED: nucleoporin 205 isoform 1 133 3 2 246 6 4 2.01E-05

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • NP_035693. 2 peroxiredoxin 2 FUS nucleoporin pigpen1 119 246 2 6 3 4 149 2.01E-052 ± 5.68E-063 2.03E-05

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • FUS NP_631888. 1 pigpen NP_035693. 2 peroxiredoxin 2 NP_444304. 1 nucleoporin 62

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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