The Microtubule-Associated Protein ASPM Regulates Spindle Assembly and Meiotic Progression in Mouse Oocytes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Xiao Ling ^a,b   Ma, Wei ^c   Zhu, Yu Bo ^b   Wang, Chao ^b   Wang, Bing Yuan ^b   An, Na ^b   An, Lei ^b   Liu, Yan ^a   Wu, Zhong Hong ^b   Tian, Jian Hui ^b  

^a Beijing Municipal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL SPINDLE LIKE MICROCEPHALY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CALMODULIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NOCODAZOLE; PACLITAXEL; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC SPINDLE ASSEMBLY; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CALMODULIN; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MORPHOLINOS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OOCYTES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84869029058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049303     Document Type: Article

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