Adaptive braking by Ase1 prevents overlapping microtubules from sliding completely apart

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1259-1264

  Braun, Marcus ^a,b   Lansky, Zdenek ^c   Fink, Gero ^a,b   Ruhnow, Felix ^a,b   Diez, Stefan ^a,b   Janson, Marcel E ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE SPINDLE ELONGATION PROTEIN 1; ELONGATION FACTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KINESIN; KINESIN 14; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; KINESIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053567158     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2323     Document Type: Article

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