TPX2 levels modulate meiotic spindle size and architecture in Xenopus egg extracts

TPX2 levels modulate spindle architecture through Eg5, partitioning microtubules between a tiled, antiparallel array that promotes spindle expansion and a cross-linked, parallel architecture that concentrates microtubules at spindle poles.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Cell Biology

• Publication date

  2014-08-04

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1083/jcb.201401014PMID 25070954PMCID 4121975
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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