Ran GTPase in nuclear envelope formation and cancer metastasis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 773, Issue , 2014, Pages 323-351

  Matchett, Kyle B ^a   McFarlane, Suzanne ^a   Hamilton, Sophie E ^a   Eltuhamy, Yousef S A ^a   Davidson, Matthew A ^a   Murray, James T ^b   Faheem, Ahmed M ^c   El Tanani, Mohamed ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle checkpoint control; CRM1; Importin ; Metastasis; Mitotic spindle; Nuclear envelope; Nucleocytoplasmic transport; Osteopontin; Ran GTPase; RanBP1; RCC1; TPX2

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN BETA; RAN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPORT; CHROMATIN; COLON CANCER; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MESOTHELIOMA; METASTASIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MYELOMA; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE K RAS; OVARY CANCER; PIK3CA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TUMOR INVASION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; CELL CYCLE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 84934441614     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-8032-8_15     Document Type: Article

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