Cortical microtubule nucleation can organise the cytoskeleton of drosophila oocytes to define the anteroposterior axis

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue September 2015, 2015, Pages

  Trong, Philipp Khuc ^a,b   Doerflinger, Hélène ^c   Dunkel, Jörn ^a,d   St Johnston, Daniel ^c   Goldstein, Raymond E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 1; BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OSKAR PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CYTOSKELETON; DATA ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROBABILITY; TUBULIN POLYMERIZATION ASSAY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL POLARITY; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OOCYTES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84943790594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.06088     Document Type: Article

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