Nuclear export of proteins and RNAs

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 420-429

  Nakielny, Sara ^a   Dreyfuss, Gideon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA TRANSPORT; SOMATIC CELL;

EID: 0031005687     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(97)80016-6     Document Type: Article

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