inner nuclear membrane

Transport

To enter the nucleus a protein must be chaperoned by a transport factor through the nuclear pore complex or it must be small enough to pass through by diffusion.

See also

 nuclear import of soluble proteins
 import of integral inner nuclear membrane proteins
 nuclear membranes

References

 Lusk CP, Blobel G, King MC. Highway to the inner nuclear membrane: rules for the road. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2007 May;8(5):414-20. PMID: 17440484