Delineation of the protein domains responsible for SYT, SSX, and SYT-SSX nuclear localization

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 192-202

  Dos Santos, Nuno R ^a   De Bruijn, Diederik R H ^a   Kater Baats, Ellen ^a   Otte, Arie P ^b   Van Kessel, Ad Geurts ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nuclear localization; Polycomb group proteins; SSX; Synovial sarcoma; SYT; SYT SSX

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUSION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034630343     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.4813     Document Type: Article

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