Kinetochore fibers are not involved in the formation of the first meiotic spindle in mouse oocytes, but control the exit from the first meiotic M phase

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-11

  Brunet, Stéphane ^a,c   Santa Maria, Angélica ^a   Guillaud, Philippe ^a,d   Dujardin, Denis ^b,d   Kubiak, Jacek Z ^a,e   Maro, Bernard ^a,e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Kinetochore; Meiosis; Microtubule; Spindle assembly checkpoint

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; KINETICS; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NOCODAZOLE; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PUROMYCIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033549574     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.146.1.1     Document Type: Article

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