Probing the architecture of a simple kinetochore using DNA-protein crosslinking

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1383-1396

  Espelin, Christopher W ^a   Kaplan, Kenneth B ^a   Sorger, Peter K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMODEOXYCYTIDINE; BROXURIDINE; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KINETOCHORES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0031451181     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.6.1383     Document Type: Article

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