Isolation of nucleation-competent centrosomes from Dictyostelium discoideum

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 167-175

  Gräf, Ralph ^a   Euteneuer, Ursula ^a   Ueda, Masahiro ^a   Schliwa, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centrosome isolation; Dictyostelium discoideum; MTOC; Nucleus associated body; tubulin

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BUFFER; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; HEPARIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PYROPHOSPHATE; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FILTRATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031880647     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0171-9335(98)80031-9     Document Type: Article

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