Nucleus-specific importin alpha proteins and nucleoporins regulate protein import and nuclear division in the binucleate Tetrahymena thermophila

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1487-1499

  Malone, Colin D ^a,c   Falkowska, Katarzyna A ^a   Li, Alanna Y ^a   Galanti, Sarah E ^a   Kanuru, Reshi C ^a   LaMont, Elizabeth G ^a   Mazzarella, Kate C ^a   Micev, Alan J ^a   Osman, Morwan M ^a   Piotrowski, Nicholas K ^a   Suszko, Jason W ^a   Timm, Adam C ^a   Xu, Ming Ming ^a   Liu, Lucy ^a   Chalker, Douglas L ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; NUCLEOPORIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MACRONUCLEUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ALPHA KARYOPHERINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS DIVISION; MACRONUCLEUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CILIOPHORA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 51649111224     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00193-08     Document Type: Article

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