Determinants for intracellular sorting of cytoplasmic and nuclear intermediate filaments.
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Determinants for intracellular sorting of cytoplasmic and nuclear intermediate filaments
The mechanism by which nuclear and cytoplasmic filaments are sorted in vivo was studied by examining which lamin sequences are required to target an otherwise cytoplasmic IF protein, the small neurofilament subunit (NF-L), to the nuclear lamina. By swapping corresponding domains between NF-L and lamin A, nuclear envelope targeting of NF-L was shown to require the presence of the "head" domain, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0021-9525,1540-8140
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.127.5.1327