Drosophila dd4 mutants reveal that γTuRC is required to maintain juxtaposed half spindles in spermatocytes

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 929-941

  Barbosa, Vitor ^a,c   Gatt, Melanie ^a   Rebollo, Elena ^b   Gonzalez, Cayetano ^b   Glover, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell division; Centrosome; Microtubules; Mitotic spindle apparatus; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

GAMMA TUBULIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULE PROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SPERMATOCYTES; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037349046     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00295     Document Type: Review

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