The Ndc80/HEC1 complex is a contact point for kinetochore-microtubule attachment

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-59

  Wei, Ronnie R ^a,b   Al Bassam, Jawdat ^a   Harrison, Stephen C ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALPONIN; NDC80 PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 33846100785     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1186     Document Type: Article

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