Interactions between Centromere Complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 4931-4946

  Nekrasov, Vladimir S ^a   Smith, Melanie A ^a   Peak Chew, Sew ^a   Kilmartin, John V ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN A; PROTEIN DSN1P; PROTEIN MTW1P; PROTEIN NNF1P; PROTEIN NSL1P; PROTEIN SPC105P; PROTEIN YDR532P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0344875491     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E03-06-0419     Document Type: Article

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