Establishment of the vertebrate kinetochores

Chromosome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 547-561

  Hori, Tetsuya ^a   Fukagawa, Tatsuo ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

CCAN; Centromere; Kinetochore; KMN

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE PROTEIN;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864875552     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-012-9289-9     Document Type: Review

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