Approaching the mechanism of protein transport across the ER membrane

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 499-504

  Rapoport, Tom A ^a   Rolls, Melissa M ^a   Jungnickel, Berit ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030222331     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(96)80027-5     Document Type: Article

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