Mitotic spindle poles are organized by structural and motor proteins in addition to centrosomes

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1055-1066

  Gaglio, Tirso ^a   Dionne, Mary A ^a   Compton, Duane A ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL LINE; CENTROSOME; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DYNEIN ATPASE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; ASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030961046     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.138.5.1055     Document Type: Article

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