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The quaking I-5 protein (QKI-5) has a novel nuclear localization signal and shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 8 Oct 1999
Wu J, Zhou L, Tonissen K, Tee R, Artzt K
Abstract excerpt
The mouse quaking (qk) gene is essential in both myelination and early embryogenesis. Its product, QKI, is an RNA-binding protein belonging to a growing protein family called STAR (signal transduction and activator of RNA). All members have an approximately 200-amino acid STAR domain, which contains a single extended heteronuclear ribonucleoprotein K homologue domain flanked by two domains called QUA1 and QUA2....
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