Nuclear import of the Drosophila Rel protein Dorsal is regulated by phosphorylation

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 556-568

  Drier, Eric A ^a,b,c   Huang, Leslie H ^b   Steward, Ruth ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal ventral polarity; Nuclear import; Phosphorylation; Rel family; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CACTACEAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0033105577     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.5.556     Document Type: Article

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