Nuclear import of zinc binuclear cluster proteins proceeds through multiple, overlapping transport pathways

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 209-221

  Nikolaev, Igor ^a   Cochet, Marie Françoise ^a,c   Felenbok, Béatrice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Microbiologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCR PROTEIN, ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GAL4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; GSP1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; KARYOPHERIN; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ALPHA KARYOPHERINS; BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KARYOPHERINS; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037721330     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.2.209-221.2003     Document Type: Article

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