Identification of a tRNA-specific nuclear export receptor

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 359-369

  Kutay, Ulrike ^a   Lipowsky, Gerd ^a   Izaurralde, Elisa ^b   Bischoff, F Ralf ^c   Schwarzmaier, Petra ^a   Hartmann, Enno ^d   Görlich, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN BETA; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEIN; RAN BINDING PROTEIN 1; RAN PROTEIN; RAN-BINDING PROTEIN 1; RANGAP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RANGAP1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; SERINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TRNA, SELENOCYSTEINE; TRNA, SELENOCYSTEINE-; XENOPUS PROTEIN; XPOT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA KARYOPHERINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPLASM; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BINDING; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; RNA, TRANSFER, SER; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0031990346     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80036-2     Document Type: Article

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