Structural view of the Ran-importin β interaction at 2.3 Å resolution

Cell

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 635-646

  Vetter, Ingrid R ^a   Arndt, Andreas ^a   Kutay, Ulrike ^b   Görlich, Dirk ^b   Wittinghofer, Alfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARMADILLO;

EID: 0033612390     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80774-6     Document Type: Article

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