Mutations in fission yeast Cut15, an importin α homolog, lead to mitotic progression without chromosome condensation

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 1031-1036

  Matsusaka, Takahiro ^a   Imamoto, Naoko ^b   Yoneda, Yoshihiro ^b   Yanagida, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

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EID: 0032504952     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(07)00425-3     Document Type: Article

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