RNA movement between the nucleus and the cytoplasm

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 212-219

  Lee, Margaret S ^a   Silver, Pamela A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA TRANSPORT; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030927660     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(97)80131-1     Document Type: Article

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