The major soluble tubulins are found in mega dalton (MDa) fractions in fully-grown oocytes and eggs but not in brain of the frog, Rana pipiens

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 421-430

  Wang, Tao ^a   Lessman, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Meiosis; Microtubule dynamics; Superose 6b chromatography; Tubulins in MDa fractions

Indexed keywords

NOCODAZOLE; PACLITAXEL; PROGESTERONE; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DYNAMICS; FROG; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA PIPIENS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031438817     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(97)00108-9     Document Type: Article

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