Microtubule plus-end-tracking proteins: Mechanisms and functions

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-54

  Akhmanova, Anna ^a   Hoogenraad, Casper C ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE PROTEIN;

CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DYNEIN ATPASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 12344320203     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2004.11.001     Document Type: Review

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