Behavior of γ-tubulin during spindle formation in Xenopus oocytes: Requirement of cytoplasmic dynein-dependent translocation

Zygote

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 219-226

  Kotani, Tomoya ^a,b   Yamashita, Masakane ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acentrosomal spindle; Microtubule; Oocyte maturation; Phosphorylation; XMAP215

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TUBULIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN; XMAP215 PROTEIN, XENOPUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; MITOSIS SPINDLE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CENTROSOME; DYNEIN ATPASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; TUBULIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 25844434287     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199405003321     Document Type: Article

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