Structure of a Ran-binding domain complexed with Ran bound to a GTP analogue: Implications for nuclear transport

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6722, 1999, Pages 39-46

  Vetter, Ingrid R ^a   Nowak, Christine ^a   Nishimoto, Takeharu ^a,b   Kuhlmann, Jürgen ^a   Wittinghofer, Alfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYTOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANYLYL IMIDODIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033522118     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17969     Document Type: Article

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