1999 Nobel
Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to a professor in Rockefeller University, for the discovery
that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the
cell. Please find one of his paper published in Proc. Nat.
Acad. Sci. USA described that karyopherin beta 2 mediates nuclear import of a mRNA
binding protein.
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Karyopherin 2 mediates nuclear import of a mRNA binding protein
Neris Bonifaci, Junona Moroianu, Aurelian Radu, and Gter Blobel PNAS 1997 94:
5055-5060. [Abstact][Full Text][PDF]