Microtubule nucleation remote from centrosomes may explain how asters span large cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 17715-17722

  Ishihara, Keisuke ^a,b   Nguyen, Phuong A ^a,b   Groen, Aaron C ^a,b   Field, Christine M ^a,b   Mitchison, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aster; Centrosome; Embryo; Microtubule nucleation; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; POLYMER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL GROWTH; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DEPOLYMERIZATION; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERPHASE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; SOMATIC CELL; TUBULIN POLYMERIZATION ASSAY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; FLOW KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CENTROSOME; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84918533672     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418796111     Document Type: Article

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