A centromere DNA-binding protein from fission yeast affects chromosome segregation and has homology to human CENP-B

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 487-500

  Halverson, Dana ^a   Baum, Mary ^a   Stryker, Janet ^a   Carbon, John ^a   Clarke, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA BINDING; DNA REPLICATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031049027     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.136.3.487     Document Type: Article

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