Akt-Mediated Phosphorylation Increases the Binding Affinity of Htert for Importin Alpha to Promote Nuclear Translocation.
Jeong, S.A., Kim, K., Lee, J.H., Cha, J.S., Khadka, P., Cho, H., Chung, I.K.(2015) J Cell Sci 128: 2287
- PubMed: 25999477 
- DOI: 10.1242/jcs.166132
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4B18 - PubMed Abstract: 
Telomeres are essential for chromosome integrity and protection, and their maintenance requires the ribonucleoprotein enzyme telomerase. Previously, we have shown that human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) contains a bipartite nuclear localization signal (NLS; residues 222-240) that is responsible for nuclear import, and that Akt-mediated phosphorylation of residue S227 is important for efficient nuclear import of hTERT ...