Essential role of tubulin-folding cofactor D in microtubule assembly and its association with microtubules in fission yeast

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 658-666

  Hirata, Dai ^a,b   Masuda, Hirohisa ^c   Eddison, Mark ^a   Toda, Takashi ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cofactor D; Fission yeast; MAPs; Microtubules; Polarity

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PACLITAXEL; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SHAPE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERPHASE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL POLARITY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; TUBULIN; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SUIDAE;

EID: 0032472940     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.3.658     Document Type: Article

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