Nuclear translocation contributes to regulation of DNA excision repair activities

DNA Repair

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 682-689

  Knudsen, Nina Østergaard ^a   Andersen, Sofie Dabros ^a   Lützen, Anne ^a   Nielsen, Finn Cilius ^b   Rasmussen, Lene Juel ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Importin; NLS; Nuclear translocation; Subcellular localization

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EXCISION REPAIR; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 67349110815     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2009.03.005     Document Type: Review

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