Microtubule dynamics in Xenopus egg extracts

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 435-445

  Shirasu, Mimi ^a   Yonetani, Ann ^a   Walczak, Claire E ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cellular function; Microtubule; Proteins

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY;

BIPOLAR SPINDLES; BROKEN DOWN; CELL CYCLE; CELLULAR FUNCTION; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; IN-VITRO; MICROTUBULE DYNAMICS; MICROTUBULES; XENOPUS EGGS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

PROTEINS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FEMALE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033559071     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19990315)44:6<435::AID-JEMT5>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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