Microtubule flux: What is it good for?

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2005, Pages

  Khodjakov, Alexey ^a   Kapoor, Tarun ^b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; TUBULIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; KINESIN; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TUBULIN;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 28444485066     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.11.017     Document Type: Short Survey

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