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Nuclear envelope regulation of signaling cascades.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2014
Choi Jason C, Worman Howard J
Abstract excerpt
The ultimate purpose of signal transduction is to transmit extracellular or cytoplasmic stimuli to the nuclear interior to elicit a cellular response, mediated primarily through changes in gene expression. The evolution of the nuclear envelope and the consequent compartmentalization of the genome, which is a defining feature of eukaryotes, introduced a physical barrier to the free access of genes. Initially...
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