Microtubule assembly in clarified Xenopus egg extracts

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-11

  Parsons, Stephen F ^a   Salmon, E D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic instability; MAP kinase; MPF

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL EXTRACTS; INTERPHASE; MATURATION-PROMOTING FACTOR; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MICROTUBULES; OKADAIC ACID; OVUM; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 0031012281     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)36:1<1::AID-CM1>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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