RNA-assisted nuclear transport of the meiotic regulator Mei2p in fission yeast

Cell

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-123

  Yamashita, Akira ^a,b   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^a   Nukina, Nobuyuki ^b   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; YEAST;

MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032476011     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81787-0     Document Type: Article

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