Partitioning of large and minichromosomes in Trypanosoma brucei

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5312, 1997, Pages 611-614

  Ersfeld, Klaus ^a   Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MINICHROMOSOME; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTERPHASE; KINETOCHORES; LACTONES; MACROLIDES; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 0030978125     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5312.611     Document Type: Article

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26. We thank members of our lab for discussion. DNA probes of the tubulin locus were obtained from S. Melville, University of Cambridge. The work in our lab was supported by a Wellcome Trust Programme and Equipment Grant. K.E. is supported by a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship.