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The nucleoporins are of three types: 

a. Structural nucleoporins

b. Membrane nucleoporins

c. FG-nucleoporins

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A set of seven structural nucleoporins forms a Y-shaped structure about the size of the ribosome, known as the Y complex.

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A structural motif repeated several times within the Y-complex is closely related to a structure found in the COPII proteins that drive the formation of coated vesicles within cells.

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Nucleoporin

Large group of proteins that make up the nuclear pore complex. one class (FG-nucleoporins) participates in nuclear import and export.

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FG-nucleoporins, the central channel of the NPC filled with a fluidlike phase that allows the diffusion of small molecules while excluding unchaperoned hydrophilic proteins larger than 40 kDa.

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All proteins found in the nucleus, histones, transcription factors,  DNA & RNA polymerases are synthesized in the cytoplasm and imported into the nucleus through nuclear pore complexes.