Kinesin-1 and cytoplasmic dynein act sequentially to move the meiotic spindle to the oocyte cortex in Caenorhabditis elegans

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2722-2730

  Ellefson, Marina L ^a   McNally, Francis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE PROMOTING COMPLEX; ANTIBODY; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KINESIN 1;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROMERE; CYTOPLASM; HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; DYNEIN ATPASE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINESIN; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OOCYTES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TUBULIN; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE COMPLEXES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 66349126235     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E08-12-1253     Document Type: Article

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