Nuclear accumulation of the E2F heterodimer regulated by subunit composition and alternative splicing of a nuclear localization signal

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2443-2452

  De La Luna, Susana ^a,b   Burden, Morwenna J ^a,b   Lee, Chang Woo ^a   La Thangue, Nicholas B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; E2F; Nucleus; Retinoblastoma protein; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; E2F TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029912789     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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