NuMA assembles into an extensive filamentous structure when expressed in the cell cytoplasm

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 619-630

  Saredi, Alejandro ^a   Howard, Louisa ^b   Compton, Duane A ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Filament; Mitosis; Nuclear matrix; Nucleus; NuMA

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSFECTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTERPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029930331     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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