Roles of polymerization dynamics, opposed motors, and a tensile element in governing the length of Xenopus extract meiotic spindles

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3064-3076

  Mitchison, T J ^a,b   Maddox, P ^a,c   Gaetz, J ^a,d   Groen, A ^a,b   Shirasu, M ^a,b   Desai, A ^a,e   Salmon, E D ^a,c   Kapoor, T M ^a,d  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HEXYLENE GLYCOL; KINESIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PROTEIN EG5; PROTEIN MCAK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; STEADY STATE; TENSILE STRENGTH; XENOPUS;

ADENYLYL IMIDODIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL EXTRACTS; DYNEIN ATPASE; FEMALE; GLYCOLS; KINESIN; KINETICS; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 19644392512     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E05-02-0174     Document Type: Article

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