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Yang Li

Institution
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Projects

Nuclear export of phosphorylated proteins by Karyopherin MSN5

Lead Institution
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Principal Investigator
Yuh Chook
MSN5 is the 142 kDa S. cerevisiae exportin, which exports many different protein cargoes from the nucleus to the cytoplasm in response to cellular environmental changes. Peptide signals in several…

Nuclear import of histone H2A-H2B and histone chaperone Nap1 by Kap114

Lead Institution
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Principal Investigator
Yuh Chook
Core histones organize DNA in the nucleus. Histones are synthesized in the cytoplasm and are be transported by to the nucleus by Karyopherin nuclear transport receptors. In the cytoplasm, histones…