Efficient chromosome capture requires a bias in the 'search-and-capture' process during mitotic-spindle assembly

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 828-832

  Wollman, R ^a   Cytrynbaum, E N ^b   Jones, J T ^c   Meyer, T ^c   Scholey, J M ^a   Mogilner, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CENTROMERE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMETAPHASE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROMETAPHASE; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18844366664     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.03.019     Document Type: Article

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