Mediators of nuclear protein import target karyophilic proteins to pore complexes of cytoplasmic annulate lamellae

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 419-433

  Cordes, Volker C ^a,b   Rackwitz, Hans Richard ^a   Reidenbach, Sonja ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Annulate lamellae; Importin; Nuclear export signal; Nuclear localization signal; Nuclear pore complex; Ran; Transportin

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCHROME; KARYOPHERIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBER; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031574280     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3806     Document Type: Article

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