Dynamic localization of the nuclear import receptor and its interactions with transport factors

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1163-1176

  Koepp, Deanna M ^a   Wong, Darren H ^a   Corbett, Anita H ^a   Silver, Pamela A ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYBRID PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KARYOPHERINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; YEASTS;

EID: 0029897642     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.133.6.1163     Document Type: Article

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