Mammalian kinetochores count attached microtubules in a sensitive and switch-like manner

Kinetochores monitor their attachment to spindle microtubules to control spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) signaling and cell cycle progression. Kuhn and Dumont show that individual mammalian kinetochores monitor the number of attached microtubules as a single unit in a sensitive and switch-like manner.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of Cell Biology

• Publication date

  2019-09-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1083/jcb.201902105PMID 31492713PMCID 6829666
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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