Probing spindle assembly mechanisms with monastrol, a small molecule inhibitor of the mitotic kinesin, Eg5

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 975-988

  Kapoor, Tarun M ^a   Mayer, Thomas U ^a   Coughlin, Margaret L ^a   Mitchison, Timothy J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Eg5; Kinesin; Kinetochore; MAD2; Monastrol

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; KINESIN; KINESIN INHIBITOR; MONASTROL; PROTEIN MAD2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CENTROMERE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE DUPLICATION; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SPINDLE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOMES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PYRIMIDINES; THIONES; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034605123     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.150.5.975     Document Type: Article

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