Depletion of a Drosophila homolog of yeast sup35p disrupts spindle assembly, chromosome segregation, and cytokinesis during male meiosis

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 286-302

  Basu, Joydeep ^a   Williams, Byron C ^a   Li, ZeXiao ^a   Williams, Erika V ^a   Goldberg, Michael L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

ef 1 gene family; Meiotic spindle; Polypeptide release factor; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TELOPHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS;

EID: 0031954990     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)39:4<286::AID-CM4>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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