The cenpB gene is not essential in mice

Chromosoma

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 570-576

  Kapoor, Mini ^a   Montes De Oca Luna, Roberto ^a   Liu, Gen ^a   Lozano, Guillermina ^a   Cummings, Chris ^b   Mancini, Michael ^b   Ouspenski, Ilia ^b   Brinkley, B R ^b   May, Gregory S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE FUNCTION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, SATELLITE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; FIBROBLASTS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032446844     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050343     Document Type: Article

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