Effects of nanomolar taxol on crane-fly spermatocyte spindles indicate that acetylation of kinetochore microtubules can be used as a marker of poleward tubulin flux

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-32

  Wilson, Paula J ^a   Forer, Arthur ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

acetylated tubulin; kinetochore microtubule dynamics; mitosis; paclitaxel; taxol

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; FLY; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPERMATOCYTE;

ACETYLATION; ANAPHASE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL POLARITY; DIPTERA; KINETOCHORES; MALE; METAPHASE; MICROCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PACLITAXEL; PROPHASE; SPERMATOCYTES; TUBULIN;

TIPULIDAE;

EID: 0030904701     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)37:1<20::AID-CM3>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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