Crystallographic analysis of the recognition of a nuclear localization signal by the nuclear import factor karyopherin α

Cell

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-204

  Conti, Elena ^a   Uy, Marc ^a   Leighton, Lore ^a   Blobel, Günter ^a   Kuriyan, John ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA SUPERCOILING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

ARMADILLO;

EID: 0032563246     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81419-1     Document Type: Article

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