Augmin promotes meiotic spindle formation and bipolarity in Xenopus egg extracts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 35, 2011, Pages 14473-14478

  Petry, Sabine ^a   Pugieux, Ceĺine ^b   Ned́eĺec, Franco̧is J ^b   Vale, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

tubulin; tubulin ring complex; Microtubule nucleation

Indexed keywords

AUGMIN; CELL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MEIOSIS SPINDLE; MICROTUBULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CENTROSOME; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; OVUM; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 80052298977     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1110412108     Document Type: Article

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