Sentences with phrase «nuclear envelope breakdown»

Recent advances include the discovery of a mode by which nontelomeric heterochromatin can acquire chromosome end - protection capacity, as well as expansion of the known repertoire of telomeres and centromeres to include the control of nuclear envelope breakdown and spindle formation.

The first in her family to earn a doctoral degree, Dr. Higa completed her thesis at the University of Utah in Oncological Sciences where she studied the roles of nuclear pore proteins in nuclear export and nuclear envelope breakdown.

We found that CI resulted from delayed nuclear envelope breakdown of the male pronucleus in Nasonia vitripennis.

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At the same time, coauthor Peter Adams, from the University of Glasgow, published a previous study on the breakdown of the nuclear lamina in which he observed a peculiar protrusion, or blebbing, of the nuclear envelope into the cytoplasm, and these blebs contained DNA, nuclear lamina proteins, and chromatin (the nuclear structures in which genes reside).

While retroviruses generally only infect dividing cells (because their access to the host genome is thought to rely on the breakdown of the nuclear envelope that occurs in mitosis [Roe et al., 1993]-RRB-, lentiviruses are a genus of the retroviral family that can infect non-dividing cells (possibly through the use of nuclear localization signals by the viral components [Bukrinsky et al., 1992]-RRB-, and thus, offer an advantage when transducing certain cell types that exhibit limited cell division (e.g., neurons).