Progress in the structural and functional characterization of kinetochores

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 152-163

  Pesenti, Marion E ^a   Weir, John R ^a   Musacchio, Andrea ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CYTOGENETICS; DNA REPLICATION; HUMAN; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; KINETOCHORE; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; KINETOCHORES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84962213377     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2016.03.003     Document Type: Review

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