Reconstitution and functional analysis of kinetochore subcomplexes

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 95, Issue C, 2010, Pages 641-656

  Gestaut, Daniel R ^a   Cooper, Jeremy ^b   Asbury, Charles L ^a   Davis, Trisha N ^a   Wordeman, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Applied Precision Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALIBRATION; CENTROMERE; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952378923     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)95032-2     Document Type: Book

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