Regulation of intracellular dynamics of Smad4 by its leucine-rich nuclear export signal

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 176-182

  Watanabe, Mina ^a   Masuyama, Norihisa ^a   Fukuda, Makoto ^a   Nishida, Eisuke ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0034252221     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd029     Document Type: Article

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