A Role for NuSAP in Linking Microtubules to Mitotic Chromosomes

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 230-236

  Ribbeck, Katharina ^a   Raemaekers, Tim ^b   Carmeliet, Geert ^c   Mattaj, Iain W ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CELLBIO

Indexed keywords

DNA; KARYOPHERIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; RAN PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; OOCYTE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KARYOPHERINS; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846601454     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.050     Document Type: Article

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