Identification of the nuclear localization signal of mouse DNA primase: Nuclear transport of p46 subunit is facilitated by interaction with p54 subunit

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2627-2636

  Mizuno, Takeshi ^a   Okamoto, Tomoko ^b,c   Yokoi, Masayuki ^b   Izumi, Masako ^a   Kobayashi, Akio ^d   Hachiya, Takahisa ^d   Tamai, Katsuyuki ^d   Inoue, Tadashi ^c   Hanaoka, Fumio ^a,b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Medical & Biological Laboratories Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA polymerase primase; DNA primase; Nuclear localization signal; Piggy back binding transport

Indexed keywords

DNA PRIMASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; COS CELLS; DNA PRIMASE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029909366     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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