Recruiting a microtubule-binding complex to DNA directs chromosome segregation in budding yeast

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1116-1120

  Lacefield, Soni ^a,b   Lau, Derek T C ^a   Murray, Andrew W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS SIGNAL REGULATING KINASE 1; FUNGAL DNA; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL BUDDING; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SISTER CHROMATID; TANDEM REPEAT; YEAST CELL;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 69949150953     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1925     Document Type: Article

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