Prime movers: The mechanochemistry of mitotic kinesins

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 257-271

  Cross, Robert A ^a   McAinsh, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GSK 923295; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; KINESIN; KINESIN 10; KINESIN 12; KINESIN 13; KINESIN 14; KINESIN 4; KINESIN 5; KINESIN 6; KINESIN 7; KINESIN 8; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MONASTROL; MYOSIN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL MOTION; CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEDIATOR; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMETAPHASE; PROPHASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HUMANS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 84896990026     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3768     Document Type: Review

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