Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of signal transducers

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-219

  Xu, Lan ^a   Massagué, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; KARYOPHERINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1542284152     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1331     Document Type: Review

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