The mechanism of nucleocytoplasmic transport through the nuclear pore complex

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2010, Pages 567-584

  Tetenbaum Novatt, J ^a   Rout, M P ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBULAR PROTEIN; GLYCINE; KARYOPHERIN; KARYOPHERIN BETA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOPORIN; PHENYLALANINE; RAN PROTEIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BINDING SITE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEL FILTRATION; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR EXPORT SIGNAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SOLID STATE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; YEAST; CELL STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; GLYCINE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 80052410893     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2010.75.033     Document Type: Article

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