Human mitochondrial transcription factor A possesses multiple subcellular targeting signals

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 6488-6499

  Pastukh, Viktoriya ^a   Shokolenko, Inna ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Wilson, Glenn ^a   Alexeyev, Mikhail ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Cisplatin; Etoposide; Mitochondrial transcription factor A; Nuclear localization sequence

Indexed keywords

CAMPTOTHECIN; CISPLATIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ETOPOSIDE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B2 PROTEIN; METHIONINE; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A; POLYPEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CAMPTOTHECIN; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CISPLATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ETOPOSIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METHIONINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 36749087020     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06167.x     Document Type: Article

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