A centriole- and RanGTP-independent spindle assembly pathway in meiosis I of vertebrate oocytes

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-305

  Dumont, Julien ^a   Petri, Sebastian ^b   Pellegrin, Franz ^a   Terret, Marie Emilie ^a,e   Bohnsack, Markus T ^b,f   Rassinier, Pascale ^a   Georget, Virginie ^c   Kalab, Petr ^d   Gruss, Oliver J ^b   Verlhac, Marie Hélène ^a  

^a Université René Descartes   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Institut de Biologie   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN BETA; RAN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CENTRIOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOMICS; SPINDLE CELL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BETA KARYOPHERINS; CENTRIOLES; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OOCYTES; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

MUS; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33846637365     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200605199     Document Type: Article

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