Engineered mutants in the switch II loop of Ran define the contribution made by key residues to the interaction with nuclear transport factor 2 (NTF2) and the role of this interaction in nuclear protein import

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 289, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 565-577

  Kent, Helen M ^a   Moore, Mary Shannon ^b   Quimby, B Booth ^c   Baker, Anne M E ^a   McCoy, Airlie J ^a   Murphy, Gretchen A ^d   Corbett, Anita H ^c   Stewart, Murray ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

GTPase; Nuclear trafficking; Nucleocytoplasmic transport; Protein engineering; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIGITONIN; KARYOPHERIN; LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; YEAST;

EID: 0033546384     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2775     Document Type: Article

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