Self assembly of NuMA: Multiarm oligomers as structural units of a nuclear lattice

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1689-1700

  Harborth, Jens ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Gueth Hallonet, Catherine ^b   Weber, Klaus ^a   Osborn, Mary ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Multiarm oligomer; Nuclear matrix; Nuclear scaffold; NuMA; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

DIMER; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; POLYPEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033560042     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.6.1689     Document Type: Article

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