An RCC1-type guanidine exchange factor for the Ran G protein is found in the Plasmodium falciparum nucleus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 165-170

  Ji, Dar Der ^a   A k Sultan, Ali ^a   Chakrabarti, Debopam ^b   Horrocks, Paul ^a   Doerig, Christian ^c   E Arnot, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Guanidine exchange factors; Nuclear import; Ran GTP cycle

Indexed keywords

GUANIDINE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RABBITS; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0032168131     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00107-8     Document Type: Article

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