Nuclear import properties of the sex-determining factor SRY

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 390, Issue , 2007, Pages 83-97

  Forwood, Jade K ^a   Kaur, Gurpreet ^a   Jans, David A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Green fluorescent protein; Importin; Nuclear import; Nuclear localization sequence; SRY

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; GENDER AND SEX; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; KINETICS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KARYOPHERINS; KINETICS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSFECTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 36549002680     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1385/1-59745-466-4:83     Document Type: Article

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