A soft cortex is essential for asymmetric spindle positioning in mouse oocytes

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 958-966

  Chaigne, Agathe ^a,b   Campillo, Clément ^c,h   Gov, Nir S ^d   Voituriez, Raphaël ^e   Azoury, Jessica ^a,b   Umaña Diaz, Claudia ^a,b   Almonacid, Maria ^a,b   Queguiner, Isabelle ^a,b   Nassoy, Pierre ^c,f,g,i   Sykes, Cécile ^c,f,g   Verlhac, Marie Hélène ^a,b   Terret, Marie Emilie ^a,b  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^b Memolife Laboratory of Excellence and Paris Science Lettre   (France)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^h University of Lyon   (France)

ⁱ Laboratoire Photonique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; F ACTIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYOSIN II;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CORTEX; POLAR BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; ACTINS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOSINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-MOS; OOCYTES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84881474606     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2799     Document Type: Article

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