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Study finds nuclear pore barrier proteins behave like liquids

Researchers studying the nuclear pore complex, the structure that controls molecular traffic in and out of a cell's nucleus, found that the disordered proteins forming its selective barrier move and behave like a liquid. This fluid-like motion appears to underlie how the pore filters which molecules can pass through it. The finding was published in Nature.