Fission yeast homologs of human CENP-B have redundant functions affecting cell growth and chromosome segregation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2852-2864

  Baum, Mary ^a   Clarke, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL GROWTH; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RETROPOSON; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

AUTOANTIGENS; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0034074950     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.8.2852-2864.2000     Document Type: Article

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