Cytokinesis: Progress on all fronts

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 684-690

  Glotzer, Michael ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; KINESIN; METHENAMINE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RNA;

ANAPHASE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENOME; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SISTER CHROMATID;

EID: 0344413429     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2003.10.003     Document Type: Review

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