Concentrating on the mitotic spindle
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Concentrating on the mitotic spindle
In eukaryotes, the microtubule-based spindle drives chromosome segregation. In this issue, Schweizer et al. (2015; J. Cell Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201506107) find that the spindle area is demarcated by a semipermeable organelle barrier. Molecular crowding, which is microtubule independent, causes the enrichment and/or retention of crucial factors in the spindle region. Their results...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0021-9525,1540-8140
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201508007