Xenopus in vitro assays to analyze the function of transmembrane nucleoporins and targeting of inner nuclear membrane proteins

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 122, Issue , 2014, Pages 193-218

  Eisenhardt, Nathalie ^a   Schooley, Allana ^a   Antonin, Wolfram ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LABORATORY OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell free assay; Immunodepletion; Integral membrane protein; Membrane reconstitution; Nuclear envelope; Nuclear pore complex; Nuclear reformation; Nuclear transport; Proteoliposomes; Xenopus egg extracts

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEOPORIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MEMBRANE FUSION; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR PORE; OOCYTE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; OVUM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84900865812     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-417160-2.00009-6     Document Type: Chapter

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