Microtubule Plus-End Dynamics in Xenopus Egg Extract Spindles

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1776-1784

  Tirnauer, Jennifer S ^a,b   Salmon, E D ^a,c   Mitchison, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; MITOTIC CENTROMERE ASSOCIATED KINESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; EGG; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ADENYLYL IMIDODIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; GLYCOLS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINESIN; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OVUM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1642546280     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E03-11-0824     Document Type: Article

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