Mechanisms of intracellular scaling

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2012, Pages 113-135

  Levy, Daniel L ^a   Heald, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cell size; chromosome size; nuclear size; organelle size regulation; spindle size

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; KATANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ANURA; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPORT; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCALE UP; SPINDLE CELL; TETRAHYMENA; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS SIZE; CELL SIZE; CHROMATIN; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PORE; YEASTS;

ANURA;

EID: 84870233868     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: 15308995     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-092910-154158     Document Type: Review

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