Driving chromosome segregation: Lessons from the human and Drosophila centromere-kinetochore machinery

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1667-1675

  Orr, Bernardo ^a   Afonso, Olga ^a   Feijão, Tália ^a   Sunkel, Claudio E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Centromere; Chromosome segregation; Kinetochore; Mitosis; Sister chromatid; Spindle assembly checkpoint

Indexed keywords

BUB1 RELATED PROTEIN; BUB3 PROTEIN; CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CENTROMERE PROTEIN C; CENTROMERE PROTEIN H; CENTROMERE PROTEIN L; CENTROMERE PROTEIN N; CENTROMERE PROTEIN O; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN MAD1; PROTEIN MAD2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SISTER CHROMATID;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING;

EID: 78649731667     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0381667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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