Karyopherin flexibility in nucleocytoplasmic transport

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 237-244

  Conti, Elena ^a   Müller, Christoph W ^b   Stewart, Murray ^c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPORTIN 1; EXPORTIN CSE1P; EXPORTIN LOS1; EXPORTIN XPO T; EXPORTIN XPO1P; ISOPROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN; KARYOPHERIN BETA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSPORTIN; TRANSPORTIN M9; TRANSPORTIN RAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; KARYOPHERINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAYS;

EID: 33646482468     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.03.010     Document Type: Review

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