Asymmetric cell division: Microtubule dynamics and spindle asymmetry

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2257-2264

  Kaltschmidt, Julia A ^a   Brand, Andrea H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cell division; Dynactin; Dynein; G protein signalling; Microtubules; Par proteins; Spindle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; ANIMAL; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; DYNEIN ATPASE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PAR 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PAR-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

EID: 0036591958     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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