Assembly of microtubules and actomyosin rings in the absence of nuclei and spindle pole bodies revealed by a novel genetic method

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Huang, Yinyi ^a   Tran, P T ^b   Oliferenko, Snezhana ^a   Balasubramanian, Mohan K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPINDLE POLE BODY; YEAST CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLEACHING; CELL DIVISION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

ACTOMYOSIN; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; GENOTYPE; LASER THERAPY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOTOBLEACHING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 39749171154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000618     Document Type: Article

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