The kinetically dominant assembly pathway for centrosomal asters in Caenorhabditis elegans is γ-tubulin dependent

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 591-602

  Hannak, Eva ^a   Oegema, Karen ^a   Kirkham, Matthew ^a   Gönczy, Pierre ^b   Habermann, Bianca ^a   Hyman, Anthony A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Grip; Microtubule; Mitosis; Spc; tbg 1

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GAMMA TUBULIN; PROTEIN CEGRIP 1; PROTEIN ZYG 9; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL KINETICS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CENTROSOME; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; INTERPHASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CENTROSOME; DOWN-REGULATION; DYNEIN ATPASE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; KINETICS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUBULIN;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037071539     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200202047     Document Type: Article

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