Nucleocytoplasmic transport: A role for nonspecific competition in karyopherin-nucleoporin interactions

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 31-46

  Tetenbaum Novatt, Jaclyn ^a   Hough, Loren E ^a   Mironska, Roxana ^a   McKenney, Anna Sophia ^a   Rout, Michael P ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; KARYOPHERIN; NUCLEOPORIN; PHENYLALANINE;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA KARYOPHERINS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE;

EID: 84861127061     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M111.013656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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