Mechanisms for focusing mitotic spindle poles by minus end-directed motor proteins

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 229-240

  Goshima, Gohta ^a   Nédélec, François ^b   Vale, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MOLECULAR MOTOR; NCD PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIMULATION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CENTROSOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; DYNEIN ATPASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 27544447708     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200505107     Document Type: Article

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