Kinetochores distinguish GTP from GDP forms of the microtubule lattice

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6645, 1997, Pages 888-890

  Severin, Fedor F ^a   Sorger, Peter K ^b   Hyman, Anthony A ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; POLYMERS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TUBULIN;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030921846     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42270     Document Type: Article

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