Human centromere chromatin protein hMis12, essential for equal segregation, is independent of CENP-A loading pathway

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-39

  Goshima, Gohta ^a   Kiyomitsu, Tomomi ^a   Yoda, Kinya ^b   Yanagida, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CENP A; HeLa; Kinetochore; Mis12; RNAi

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; HISTONE; KINESIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN HMIS12; PROTEIN MAD2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA ANALYSIS; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KINETOCHORES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037421189     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200210005     Document Type: Article

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