Calmodulin localizes to the spindle pole body of Schizosaccharomyces pombe and performs an essential function in chromosome segregation

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1805-1812

  Moser, Michael J ^a,b   Flory, Mark R ^b   Davis, Trisha N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Calmodulin; Centrosome; GFP; Mitosis; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CALMODULIN; DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE FUSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

CALMODULIN; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TEMPERATURE; TUBULIN;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0030809387     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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