The APC tumour suppressor has a nuclear export function

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6799, 2000, Pages 1009-1012

  Rosin Arbesfeld, Rina ^a   Townsley, Fiona ^a   Blenz, Marian ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLON POLYPOSIS; GENE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034739023     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35023016     Document Type: Article

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