Levels of the ubiquitin ligase substrate adaptor MEL-26 are inversely correlated with MEI-1/katanin microtubule-severing activity during both meiosis and mitosis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 330, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 349-357

  Johnson, Jacque Lynne F A ^a   Lu, Chenggang ^a   Raharjo, Eko ^a   McNally, Karen ^b   McNally, Francis J ^b   Mains, Paul E ^a  

^a Department of Medical Genetics ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Meiosis; Protein degradation; Spindle

Indexed keywords

KATANIN; MEI 1 PROTEIN; MEI 2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 65649153391     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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