Discovering centromere proteins: From cold white hands to the A, B, C of CENPs

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 443-449

  Earnshaw, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE ANTIBODY; CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CENTROMERE PROTEIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIGEN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

ANAPHASE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES;

EID: 84934439217     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm4001     Document Type: Review

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