Lamin B receptor multi-tasking at the nuclear envelope

Nucleus

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-70

  Olins, Ada L ^a   Rhodes, Gale ^b   Welch, David B Mark ^c   Zwerger, Monika ^d   Olins, Donald E ^a  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TheMolecularLevelorg   (United States)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Lamin B receptor; Lamins; Nuclear envelope; Sterol reductase

Indexed keywords

LAMIN A; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYPEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME; ECHINODERM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

CHORDATA; ECHINODERMATA;

EID: 77958036071     PISSN: 19491034     EISSN: 19491042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/nucl.1.1.10515     Document Type: Article

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