Megator, an essential coiled-coil protein that localizes to the putative spindle matrix during mitosis in Drosophila

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 4854-4865

  Qi, Hongying ^a   Rath, Uttama ^a   Wang, Dong ^a   Xu, Ying Zhi ^a   Ding, Yun ^a   Zhang, Weiguo ^a   Blacketer, Melissa J ^a   Paddy, Michael R ^b   Girton, Jack ^a   Johansen, Jergen ^a   Johansen, Kristen M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MEGATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SKELETOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERPHASE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, GENETIC; NOCODAZOLE; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 6344225311     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-07-0579     Document Type: Article

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