α4-Tubulin is involved in rapid formation of long microtubules to push apart the daughter centrosomes during early Drosophila embryogenesis

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 119, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3238-3248

  Venkel, Zsolt ^a   Gáspár, Imre ^a   Tóth, Gábor ^b   Szabad, János ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

tubulin; Centrosome separation; Dominant negative mutation; Drosophila embryogenesis; Interpolar microtubules

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; ALPHA4 TUBULIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TUBULIN;

EID: 33748291452     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03039     Document Type: Article

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