Spindles get the Ran around

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-4

  Heald, Rebecca ^a   Weis, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA TUBULIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAS PROTEIN;

CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOLOGY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033979941     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-8924(99)01691-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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