Correcting improper chromosomes-spindle attachments during cell division

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 232-237

  Lampson, Michael A ^a   Renduchitala, Kishore ^a   Khodjakov, Alexey ^b   Kapoor, Tarun M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; AURORA KINASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MONASTROL; PHOTOPROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; THIOKETONE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENOME; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KINETOCHORES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIMIDINES; THIONES;

EID: 1542399869     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1102     Document Type: Article

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