Spindle assembly in Xenopus egg extracts: Respective roles of centrosomes and microtubule self-organization

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 615-628

  Heald, Rebecca ^a,b   Tournebize, Régis ^a   Habermann, Anja ^a   Karsenti, Eric ^a   Hyman, Anthony ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPERM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL EXTRACTS; CENTROSOME; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DNA; DYNEIN ATPASE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOVEMENT; OVUM; TUBULIN; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030751640     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.138.3.615     Document Type: Article

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