Plus end-specific depolymerase activity of Kip3, a kinesin-8 protein, explains its role in positioning the yeast mitotic spindle

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 913-923

  Gupta Jr , Mohan L ^a   Carvalho, Pedro ^a   Roof, David M ^b,c   Pellman, David ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Cytokinetics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DIMER; KINESIN; KINESIN 8; KIP3 PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; YEAST;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CELL CYCLE; KINESIN; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TUBULIN;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 33748158378     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1457     Document Type: Article

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