Molecular characterization of the 50-kD subunit of dynactin reveals function for the complex in chromosome alignment and spindle organization during mitosis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 617-633

  Echeverri, Christophe J ^a,b   Paschal, Bryce M ^c   Vaughan, Kevin T ^a   Vallee, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DYNACTIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CENTROMERE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CHROMOSOME; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DYNEIN ATPASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROTUBULE PROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029913484     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.132.4.617     Document Type: Article

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