Gamma-tubulin is required for bipolar spindle assembly and for proper kinetochore microtubule attachments during prometaphase i in drosophila oocytes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hughes, Stacie E ^a   Beeler, J Scott ^a,b   Seat, Angela ^a,c   Slaughter, Brian D ^a   Unruh, Jay R ^a   Bauerly, Elisabeth ^a   Matthies, Heinrich J G ^b   Hawley, R Scott ^a,d  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GAMMA TUBULIN GENE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROMETAPHASE; SPINDLE CELL; ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALIA;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; KINETOCHORES; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OOCYTES; PROMETAPHASE; PROTEIN BINDING; TUBULIN;

EID: 80052316158     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002209     Document Type: Article

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