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Nature Cell Biology 1, E66 - E67 (1999)
doi:10.1038/11036
Nuclear transport HEATs up
Alexander S. Brodsky1,2 & Pamela A. Silver1
- Alexander S. Brodsky and Pamela A. Silver are in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
- e-mail: brodsky@bcmp.med.harvard.edu
Correspondence to: Pamela A. Silver1 e-mail: psilver@fas.harvard.edu
Abstract
Importins, proteins that transport macromolecules into the nucleus, interact with cargo and regulatory molecules at different times in the transport cycle. We are now closer to understanding the structural basis of these interactions.
