Genome stability is ensured by temporal control of kinetochore-microtubule dynamics

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-35

  Bakhoum, Samuel F ^a,b   Thompson, Sarah L ^a,b   Manning, Amity L ^a,b   Compton, Duane A ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NORRIS COTTON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; PROTEIN KIF2B; PROTEIN MCAK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOGENESIS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CELL CLONING; CELL STIMULATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR;

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; KINESIN; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TUBULIN;

EID: 58149334818     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1809     Document Type: Article

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