Cell Biology: Spatial coordination of spindle assembly by chromosome-mediated signaling gradients

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5739, 2005, Pages 1373-1376

  Caudron, Maïwen ^a   Bunt, Gertrude ^b   Bastiaens, Philippe ^a   Karsenti, Eric ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; ENZYMES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NUCLEATION; PHOSPHATES;

CELL DIVISION; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (GTPASE); MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE;

CELLS;

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KARYOPHERIN BETA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN RANBP1; RAN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RAN BINDING PROTEIN 1; RAN-BINDING PROTEIN 1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; CENTROSOME; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; METABOLISM; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; OOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BETA KARYOPHERINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; CUES; DIFFUSION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 23944436962     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115964     Document Type: Article

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