The MIS12 complex is a protein interaction hub for outer kinetochore assembly

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 835-852

  Petrovic, Arsen ^a   Pasqualato, Sebastiano ^a   Dube, Prakash ^c   Krenn, Veronica ^a   Santaguida, Stefano ^a   Cittaro, Davide ^d   Monzani, Silvia ^a   Massimiliano, Lucia ^a   Keller, Jenny ^a   Tarricone, Aldo ^a   Maiolica, Alessio ^a,e   Stark, Holger ^c   Musacchio, Andrea ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b FIRC INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Consortium for Genomic Technologies ^*  (Italy)

^e Institute of Molecular Systems Biology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NDC80 COMPLEX; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN KNL1 COMPLEX; PROTEIN MIS12 COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 77956378429     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201002070     Document Type: Article

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