Interaction between NTFP and xFxFG-containing nucleoporins is required to mediate nuclear import of RanGDP

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 579-593

  Bayliss, Richard ^a   Ribbeck, Katharina ^b   Akin, Debra ^c   Kent, Helen M ^a   Feldherr, Carl M ^c   Görlich, Dirk ^b   Stewart, Murray ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear trafficking; Nucleoporins; Transport

Indexed keywords

GOLD; NUCLEOPORIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NSP1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; NTF2 PROTEIN, RAT; NUCLEAR PORE PROTEIN P62; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEIN; NUTF2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RAN PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPORT; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; XENOPUS LAEVIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUBILITY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032589798     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3166     Document Type: Article

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