MEI-1/MEI-2 katanin-like microtubule severing activity is required for Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1072-1084

  Srayko, Martin ^a   Buster, Dan W ^b   Bazirgan, Omar A ^b   McNally, Francis J ^b   Mains, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AAA protein; Caenorhabditis elegans; Katanin; Meiotic spindle; Microtubule severing

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFECTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0034192639     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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