The nuclear pore complex: Nucleocytoplasmic transport and beyond

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 757-766

  Fahrenkrog, Birthe ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM ION; CELL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN BETA; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOPORIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MAD1; PROTEIN MAD2; RAN PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; TANKYRASE; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; XENOPUS;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0141995069     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1230     Document Type: Review

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