XRHAMM functions in ran-dependent microtubule nucleation and pole formation during anastral spindle assembly

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 1801-1811

  Groen, Aaron C ^a,b   Cameron, Lisa A ^b,c   Coughlin, Margaret ^a   Miyamoto, David T ^a   Mitchison, Timothy J ^a,b   Ohi, Ryoma ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUMA PROTEIN, XENOPUS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; RAN PROTEIN; RHAMM PROTEIN, XENOPUS; TPX2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; TUMOR PROTEIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROSOME; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 6944245062     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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