γ-Tubulin Plays an Essential Role in the Coordination of Mitotic Events

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1374-1386

  Prigozhina, Natalie L ^a,b   Oakley, C Elizabeth ^a   Lewis, Amanda M ^a   Nayak, Tania ^a   Osmani, Stephen A ^a   Oakley, Berl R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA TUBULIN;

ALLELE; ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; TUBULIN;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 1542344016     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E03-06-0405     Document Type: Article

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