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Sophie Dumont1, E D Salmon, Timothy J Mitchison

  • 1Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. sophie.dumont@ucsf.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 23, 2012
PubMed
まとめ

キネトコアは,染色体分離中に圧縮するために活性力生成を使用します. これらの発見は,細胞分裂に不可欠なキネトコア内の明確なアクティブとパッシブインターフェースを明らかにしています.

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