Mitotic spindle orients perpendicular to the forces imposed by dynamic shear

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Fernandez, Pablo ^a   Maier, Matthias ^a   Lindauer, Martina ^a   Kuffer, Christian ^b   Storchova, Zuzana ^b   Bausch, Andreas R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN II;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSTEOBLAST; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL LINE; CELL POLARITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; TIME;

ACTOMYOSIN; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL LINE; CELL POLARITY; HUMANS; MICE; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MYOSIN TYPE II; SHEAR STRENGTH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855274270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028965     Document Type: Article

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