Live cell imaging of kinetochore capture by microtubules in budding yeast

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 545, Issue , 2009, Pages 233-242

  Tanaka, Kozo ^a,b   Tanaka, Tomoyuki U ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

centromere; fluorescence microscopy; kinetochore; live cell imaging; microtubule; mitosis; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; spindle

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; VERTEBRATA;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; KINETOCHORES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 70350725082     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-993-2_14     Document Type: Article

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