Hec1 and Nuf2 are core components of the kinetochore outer plate essential for organizing microtubule attachment sites

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 519-531

  DeLuca, Jennifer G ^a   Dong, Yimin ^b   Hergert, Polla ^b   Strauss, Joshua ^b   Hickey, Jennifer M ^a   Salmon, E D ^a   McEwen, Bruce F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN HEC1; PROTEIN NDC80; PROTEIN NUF2; PROTEIN SPC24; PROTEIN SPC25; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; NOCODAZOLE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SILVER STAINING;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 12844283239     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-09-0852     Document Type: Article

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