The intracellular mobility of nuclear import receptors and NLS cargoes

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3840-3849

  Wu, Jianrong ^a   Corbett, Anita H ^b   Berland, Keith M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN BETA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENT; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PHOTON; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; CELL LINE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ALPHA KARYOPHERINS; BETA KARYOPHERINS; CELL LINE; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 67650351106     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.01.050     Document Type: Article

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