The structure of purified kinetochores reveals multiple microtubule-attachment sites

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 925-929

  Gonen, Shane ^a,b   Akiyoshi, Bungo ^b,c,e   Iadanza, Matthew G ^a,d   Shi, Dan ^d   Duggan, Nicole ^b   Biggins, Sue ^b   Gonen, Tamir ^a,d  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; YEAST;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84866069395     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2358     Document Type: Article

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