Ran-GTP stabilises microtubule asters and inhibits nuclear assembly in Xenopus egg extracts

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 2453-2461

  Zhang, Chuanmao ^a,b   Hughes, Mike ^b   Clarke, Paul R ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle control; Centrosome; Microtubule; NuMA; Ran

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CYTOPLASM; EUKARYOTE; INTERPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPERM HEAD; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ASTER; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032814745     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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