Disorder Rules the Nuclear Pore’s Dynamic Gate

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Disorder Rules the Nuclear Pore’s Dynamic Gate
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New high-speed imaging and modeling show the nuclear pore’s center is a dynamic, disorder‑driven environment where FG‑nucleoporins and transport proteins form a moving central plug; this flexible 'virtual gate' controls which molecules enter the nucleus, challenging the idea of a static gel and linking pore dysfunction to disease, with implications for drug delivery.

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