Rng2p, a protein required for cytokinesis in fission yeast, is a component of the actomyosin ring and the spindle pole body

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 611-621

  Eng, Karen ^a   Naqvi, Naweed I ^a   Wong, Kelvin C Y ^a   Balasubramanian, Mohan K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTOMYOSIN; CALMODULIN; CELL CYCLE; CYTOKINESIS; F ACTIN; INTERPHASE; MUTANT;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032554902     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(98)70248-9     Document Type: Article

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