Nuclear translocation of the heterotrimeric CCAAT binding factor of Aspergillus oryzae is dependent on two redundant localising signals in a single subunit

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-100

  Goda, Hideya ^a   Nagase, Takashi ^a   Tanoue, Shinjiro ^a   Sugiyama, Junya ^a   Steidl, Stefan ^b,c   Tüncher, André ^b   Kobayashi, Tetsuo ^a   Tsukagoshi, Norihiro ^a,d   Brakhage, Axel A ^b   Kato, Masashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c MORPHOSYS AG   (Germany)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus oryzae; CCAAT box; Hap complex; Nuclear localisation; Nuclear localisation signal

Indexed keywords

CCAAT BINDING FACTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; CCAAT-BINDING FACTOR; CELL NUCLEUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; FUNGI;

EID: 27144498113     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0014-3     Document Type: Article

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