Structural characterisation of the nuclear import receptor importin alpha in complex with the bipartite NLS of Prp20

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Roman, Noelia ^a   Christie, Mary ^b   Swarbrick, Crystall M D ^a   Kobe, Bostjan ^b   Forwood, Jade K ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; PROTEIN PRP20; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ALPHA KARYOPHERINS; ANIMALS; BETA KARYOPHERINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MICE; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

EID: 84892408508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082038     Document Type: Article

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