An integrated mechanobiochemical feedback mechanism describes chromosome motility from prometaphase to anaphase in mitosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 13752-13757

  Liu, Jian ^a,c   Desai, Arshad ^b   Onuchic, José N ^a   Hwa, Terence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetochore microtubule; Mitotic spindle checkpoint; Tension sensor

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CENTROMERE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME; DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMETAPHASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSOR; VELOCITY;

ANAPHASE; BIOMECHANICS; CHROMOSOMES; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PROMETAPHASE;

EID: 52949108460     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807007105     Document Type: Article

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