Dynamics of the spindle pole body of the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans examined by freeze-substitution electron microscopy

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 257-265

  Yamaguchi, Masashi ^a   Biswas, Sondip Kumar ^b   Ohkusu, Misako ^a   Takeo, Kanji ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cryptococcus neoformans; Electron microscopy; Freeze substitution; Serial thin sectioning; Spindle pole body

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOPLASM; DAUGHTER CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZE DRYING; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR DIVISION; NUCLEOLUS; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMETAPHASE; PROPHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPINDLE POLE BODY; TELOPHASE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; HUMANS; ORGANELLES;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 67649210579     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01643.x     Document Type: Article

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