Ran, a GTPase involved in nuclear processes: Its regulators and effecters

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2423-2427

  Avis, Johanna M ^a   Clarke, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA;

CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; EDITORIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN;

EID: 0029861013     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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