A contractile nuclear actin network drives chromosome congression in oocytes

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7052, 2005, Pages 812-818

  Lénárt, Péter ^a,e   Bacher, Christian P ^b   Daigle, Nathalie ^a   Hand, Arthur R ^c   Eils, Roland ^b   Terasaki, Mark ^c,d   Ellenberg, Jan ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POLYMERIZATION;

CHROMOSOME CONGRESSION; MICROTUBULES; NUCLEAR ACTIN NETWORK DRIVES;

CHROMOSOMES;

ACTIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

MEDICINE;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTERIAS; BIRTH DEFECT; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL VOLUME; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME CONGRESSION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOPOLYMERS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; NOCODAZOLE; OOCYTES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARFISH; THIAZOLES; THIAZOLIDINES;

ANIMALIA; ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 23844466646     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03810     Document Type: Article

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