Microtubule nucleation

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 111-117

  Job, Didier ^a   Valiron, Odile ^a   Oakley, Berl ^b  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; GAMMA TUBULIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DGRIP83; PROTEIN DGRIP91; PROTEIN SPC97P; PROTEIN SPC98P; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0037229061     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00003-0     Document Type: Review

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