Dominant-negative mutants of importin-β block multiple pathways of import and export through the nuclear pore complex

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1153-1163

  Kutay, Ulrike ^a   Izaurralde, Elisa ^b,d   Bischoff, F Ralf ^c   Mattaj, Iain W ^b   Görlich, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Importin; Nuclear pore complex; Nuclear transport; RNA export

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; REV PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

ANIMALS; BETA KARYOPHERINS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030960586     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.6.1153     Document Type: Article

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