Wac: A new augmin subunit required for chromosome alignment but not for acentrosomal microtubule assembly in female meiosis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 184, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 777-784

  Meireles, Ana M ^a,c   Fisher, Katherine H ^b   Colombié, Nathalie ^a   Wakefield, James G ^b   Ohkura, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN AUGMIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN WAC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; WAC PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RNA INTERFERENCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; KINETOCHORES; LARVA; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 64049111434     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200811102     Document Type: Article

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