Bipolarization and poleward flux correlate during Xenopus extract spindle assembly

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 5603-5615

  Mitchison, T J ^a,b   Maddox, P ^a,c   Groen, A ^a,b   Cameron, L ^a,c   Perlman, Z ^a,b   Ohi, R ^a,b   Desai, A ^a,d   Salmon, E D ^a,c   Kapoor, T M ^a,e  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; RAN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL EXTRACTS; CELL POLARITY; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 9444246469     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-05-0440     Document Type: Article

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