Girds 'n' cleeks o' cytokinesis: Microtubule sticks and contractile hoops in cell division

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 400-404

  Glover, David M ^a   Capalbo, Luisa ^a   D'Avino, Pier Paolo ^a   Gatt, Melanie K ^a   Savoian, Matthew S ^a   Takeda, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anillin; Central spindle microtubule; Centralspindlin; Cytokinesis; Rac GTPase activating protein (RacGAP); Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (RhoGEF)

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPINDLE POLE BODY;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 45249123468     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0360400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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