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Cytoskeleton: centrosom-in absentia
1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco San Francisco, California 94143-0448, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|October 26, 1999
Abstract:
Recent results challenge long-held assumptions that centrosomes are essential organizers of mitotic spindles, but suggest that they couple spindle behavior with developmental and cellular events, perhaps by nucleating astral microtubules which mediate interactions with other cytoskeletal components.