Spindle orientation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae depends on the transport of microtubule ends along polarized actin cables

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 483-488

  Hwang, Eric ^a   Kusch, Justine ^b   Barral, Yves ^b   Huffaker, Tim C ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Microfilaments; Microtubules; Mitotic spindle apparatus; Myosins

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; MYOSIN; PROTEIN BIM1; PROTEIN KAR9; PROTEIN MYO2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPINDLE CELL; YEAST CELL;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; CELLS, CULTURED; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROTUBULE PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSIN TYPE V; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037508893     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200302030     Document Type: Article

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