Meiosis-Specific Stable Binding of Augmin to Acentrosomal Spindle Poles Promotes Biased Microtubule Assembly in Oocytes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Colombié, Nathalie ^a,b   Głuszek, A Agata ^a   Meireles, Ana M ^a,c   Ohkura, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGMIN; GAMMA TUBULIN; KINESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACENTROSOMAL SPINDLE POLE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; KINESIN; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BINDING; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84879652327     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003562     Document Type: Article

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