MCAK facilitates chromosome movement by promoting kinetochore microtubule turnover

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 869-879

  Wordeman, Linda ^a   Wagenbach, Michael ^a   Von Dassow, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL METABOLISM; CENTROMERE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KINESIN; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 36849029848     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200707120     Document Type: Article

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