Evidence for novel cell cycle checkpoints in trypanosomes: Kinetoplast segregation and cytokinesis in the absence of mitosis

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 4641-4650

  Ploubidou, Aspasia ^a   Robinson, Derrick R ^a   Docherty, Rob C ^a   Ogbadoyi, Emmanuel O ^a   Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphidicolin; Cell cycle; Checkpoint; Microtubule; Mitosis; Rhizoxin; T. brucei; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

APHIDICOLIN; CELL NUCLEUS DNA; KINETOPLAST DNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RHIZOXIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CENTRIOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENOME; KINETOPLAST; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; APHIDICOLIN; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; LACTONES; MACROLIDES; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 0033398908     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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