Spc98p directs the yeast γ-tubulin complex into the nucleus and is subject to cell cycle-dependent phosphorylation on the nuclear side of the spindle pole body

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 775-793

  Pereira, Gislene ^a,b   Knop, Michael ^a,b   Schiebel, Elmar ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b BEATSON INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031898099     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.9.4.775     Document Type: Article

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