Fission yeast Cut1 and Cut2 are essential for sister chromatid separation, concentrate along the metaphase spindle and form large complexes

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 6617-6628

  Funabiki, Hironori ^a   Kumada, Kazuki ^a   Yanagida, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaphase; Checkpoint control; Cyclosome APC; Spindle; Ubiquitin dependent proteolysis

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METAPHASE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SISTER CHROMATID; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; YEAST;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0029843496     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb01052.x     Document Type: Article

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