Stu2p: A microtubule-binding protein that is an essential component of the yeast spindle pole body

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1271-1280

  Wang, Peijing Jeremy ^a   Huffaker, Tim C ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; BINDING PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLD SENSITIVITY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPRESSOR GENE; YEAST;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CENTROSOME; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, LETHAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030728492     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.5.1271     Document Type: Article

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