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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Charles Girardot
PROVIDER: E-TABM-75 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Current biology : CB 20060202 6
<h4>Background</h4>The shape of a nucleus depends on the nuclear lamina, which is tightly associated with the inner nuclear membrane and on the interaction with the cytoskeleton. However, the mechanism connecting the differentiation state of a cell to the shape changes of its nucleus are not well understood. We investigated this question in early Drosophila embryos, where the nuclear shape changes from spherical to ellipsoidal together with a 2.5-fold increase in nuclear length during cellulariz ...[more]