Ran stimulates spindle assembly by altering microtubule dynamics and the balance of motor activities

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 221-227

  Wilde, Andrew ^a,b   Lizarraga, Sofia B ^a,c   Zhang, Lijun ^a   Wiese, Christiane ^a   Gliksman, Neal R ^d   Walczak, Claire E ^e   Zheng, Yixian ^a,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Universal Imaging Corporation   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PACLITAXEL; RAN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC STABILITY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PACLITAXEL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MOS; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0035090387     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35060000     Document Type: Article

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