The Fission Yeast TACC Protein Mia1p Stabilizes Microtubule Arrays by Length-Independent Crosslinking

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 1861-1868

  Thadani, Rahul ^a   Ling, Yuen Chyao ^a   Oliferenko, Snezhana ^a  

^a TEMASEK LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

CELLBIO

Indexed keywords

ALP7 PROTEIN, S POMBE; ASE1 PROTEIN, S POMBE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL POLARITY; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

FUNGI; METAZOA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 71849093392     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.063     Document Type: Article

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