The interplay of the N- and C-terminal domains of MCAK control microtubule depolymerization activity and spindle assembly

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 282-294

  Ems McClung, Stephanie C ^a   Hertzer, Kathleen M ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Miller, Mill W ^b   Walczak, Claire E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HETERODIMER; KINESIN; KINESIN 13; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN MCAK; RAN PROTEIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASTER; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; EXTRACT; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MICROTUBULE DEPOLYMERIZATION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPERM; SPINDLE ASSEMBLY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL EXTRACTS; KINESIN; MALE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTANT PROTEINS; OVUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MOS; SPERMATOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33846090626     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E06-08-0724     Document Type: Article

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