Definition of "nucleoporins" [nucleoporins]

• Plural form of nucleoporin. (noun)

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• "Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, however, have shown that some of the pores 'constituent proteins, called nucleoporins, pull double duty as transcription factors regulating the activity of genes active during early development."
• ""NPC components, called nucleoporins, are also present in the nuclear interior and bind to certain genes, which puts them in a new class of gene regulators.""
• "DP, Patel SS, Uversky V, Fink AL, Rexach M (2003) Disorder in the nuclear pore complex: the FG repeat regions of nucleoporins are natively unfolded."