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How do you make nuclear pores away from the nucleus?
Our paper online today bit.ly/AL-NPC
@embl @a_schw @SchwabYannick @CellCellPress #development #Nuclearpores #microscopy
https://t.co/f4Xq1Vsk31
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Background: Mothers stockpile nuclear pores (NPCs) in the cytoplasm of their eggs to enable embryonic cell cycles that are too fast for conventional NPC assembly (bit.ly/ALembryo). These are arranged in stacked ER sheets called Annulate Lamellae (AL, see 4/11).
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These are Drosophila egg chambers; where the growing oocyte is transcriptionally silent, while so-called nurse cells produce the material for its development and transport it to the front. We wanted to see if this includes AL and whether they accumulate over time.
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