A kinetochore-independent mechanism drives anaphase chromosome separation during acentrosomal meiosis

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 894-901

  Dumont, Julien ^a   Oegema, Karen ^a   Desai, Arshad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COHESIN; PROTEIN KNL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AIR-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; AURORA B KINASE; BUB1 SPINDLE CHECKPOINT PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HCP-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HCP-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HISTONE; KINESIN; KLP-19 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; KNL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPINDLE POLE BODY; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANAPHASE; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; HISTONES; KINESIN; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; AURORA KINASE B;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77956403582     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2093     Document Type: Article

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