Delivering proteins for export from the cytosol

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 255-264

  Cross, Benedict C S ^a   Sinning, Irmgard ^b   Luirink, Joen ^c   High, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; POLYPEPTIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CYTOSOL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CYTOSOL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 62849101877     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2657     Document Type: Review

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