Moesin Controls Cortical Rigidity, Cell Rounding, and Spindle Morphogenesis during Mitosis

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-101

  Kunda, Patricia ^a   Pelling, Andrew E ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Baum, Buzz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CELLBIO

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MOESIN; MYOSIN II; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SLIK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL SHAPE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; INTERPHASE; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SHAPE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; INTERPHASE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MYOSIN TYPE II; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38349022141     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.12.051     Document Type: Article

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