Microtubules orient the mitotic spindle in yeast through dynein- dependent interactions with the cell cortex

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 629-641

  Carminati, Janet L ^a   Stearns, Tim ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL ORGANELLE; CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

CELL DIVISION; CYTOPLASM; DYNEIN ATPASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0030750203     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.138.3.629     Document Type: Article

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