Kif15 Cooperates with Eg5 to Promote Bipolar Spindle Assembly

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 1703-1711

  Tanenbaum, Marvin E ^a   Macůrek, Libor ^a   Janssen, Aniek ^a   Geers, Erica F ^a   Alvarez Fernández, Mónica ^a   Medema, René H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; CELLCYCLE

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; KIF11 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KIF15 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KINESIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TPX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 70350575316     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.08.027     Document Type: Article

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