Importin-β facilitates nuclear import of human GW proteins and balances cytoplasmic gene silencing protein levels

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 7447-7461

  Schraivogel, Daniel ^a   Schindler, Susann G ^b   Danner, Johannes ^a   Kremmer, Elisabeth ^c   Pfaff, Janina ^a   Hannus, Stefan ^d   Depping, Reinhard ^b   Meister, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Intana Bioscience GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN BETA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TNRC6 PROTOEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIGEN; AUTOANTIGEN GW182, HUMAN; EIF2C2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEAR TRANSPORT ASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; AUTOANTIGENS; BETA KARYOPHERINS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84941588202     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv705     Document Type: Article

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