Nuclear transport factors: Function, behavior and interaction

European Journal of Histochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-20

  Imamoto, N ^a   Kamei, Y ^b   Yoneda, Y ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN BETA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RAN PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ALPHA KARYOPHERINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA KARYOPHERINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR;

EID: 0031959356     PISSN: 1121760X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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