Basic amino acid residue cluster within nuclear targeting sequence motif is essential for cytoplasmic plectin-vimentin network junctions

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1455-1467

  Nikolic, Branislav ^a   Mac Nulty, Elisabeth ^a   Mir, Birgit ^a   Wiche, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIMENTIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; GENE CLUSTER; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 10144233447     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.134.6.1455     Document Type: Article

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