Exporting RNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 761-773

  Köhler, Alwin ^a,b   Hurt, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINOACYLATION; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; RNA;

METAZOA;

EID: 34648816826     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2255     Document Type: Review

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