Importin α
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title:
Importin α
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Importin alpha, or karyopherin alpha refers to a class of adaptor proteins that are involved in the import of proteins into the cell nucleus. They are a sub-family of karyopherin proteins. Importin α is known to bind to the nuclear localization signal (NLS) sequence of nucleus targeted proteins. After this recognition, importin α links the protein to importin β, which transports the NLS-containing protein across the nuclear envelope to its destination. Because of their complementary functional r
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Class of adaptor proteins
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importin_%CE%B1
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2023-06-26T00:49:44Z
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