Visualization of a Ran-GTP gradient in interphase and mitotic Xenopus egg extracts.

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Published in Science on March 29, 2002

Authors

Petr Kalab1, Karsten Weis, Rebecca Heald

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1: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA.

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