Automatic quantification of microtubule dynamics enables RNAi-screening of new mitotic spindle regulators

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 266-278

  Sironi, Lucia ^a,b   Solon, Jérôme ^a,c   Conrad, Christian ^a   Mayer, Thomas U ^b   Brunner, Damian ^a,d   Ellenberg, Jan ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

EB3; Microtubule dynamics; Mitosis; Multiple particle tracking; Quantitative microscopy; RNAi screening

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79956016211     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20510     Document Type: Article

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