The Caenorhabditis elegans kinetochore reorganizes at prometaphase and in response to checkpoint stimuli

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 5187-5196

  Stear, Jeffrey H ^a,b,c   Roth, Mark B ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; NOCODAZOLE; PROTEIN CEBUB 1; PROTEIN CECENP F; PROTEIN CEMAD3; PROTEIN CENUF2; PROTEIN HCP 1; PROTEIN HIM 10; PROTEIN SAN 1; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DISSOCIATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPINDLE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; HISTONES; KINETOCHORES; METAPHASE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NOCODAZOLE; PHENOTYPE; PROMETAPHASE; PROPHASE; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 6344255125     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-06-0486     Document Type: Article

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