The molecular mechanism of nuclear transport revealed by atomic-scale measurements

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue September, 2015, Pages

  Hough, Loren E ^b   Dutta, Kaushik ^c   Sparks, Samuel ^a   Temel, Deniz B ^a   Kamal, Alia ^b   Tetenbaum Novatt, Jaclyn ^b   Rout, Michael P ^b   Cowburn, David ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; NUCLEAR TRANSPORT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR PORE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS; KARYOPHERINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR PORE;

EID: 84945926769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.10027     Document Type: Article

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