The nuclear envelope is a membrane system which surrounds the nucleoplasm of eukaryotic cells. It is composed of the nuclear lamina, nuclear pore complexes and two nuclear membranes. The space between the two membranes is called the nuclear intermembrane space.
Functions in nuclear protein import via a substrate-importin alpha-beta transport complex that passes though the nuclear pore complexes (NPC). Mediates docking of the substrate-importin complex to distinct nucleoporins (By similarity). {By
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Department of Biology
Biophysics & Bioinformatics Laboratory