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Spindle Pole Body

Known as: SPB, Body, Spindle Pole, Spindle Pole Bodies 
The spindle pole body (SPB) is the microtubule organizing center (MTOC) in the yeast Saccharomyces that plays a pivotal role in such diverse… (More)
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Bfa1-Bub2 complexgamma-tubulin small complex, spindle pole body

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Cellular StructuresSpindle Poles
MicrobiologicalMitotic Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Protein MAD2APLK1 protein, humanProcess of secretion
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Spindle Pole Body
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Modes of spindle pole body inheritance and segregation of the Bfa1p-Bub2p checkpoint protein complex.
Yeast spindle pole bodies (SPBs) duplicate once per cell cycle by a conservative mechanism resulting in a pre-existing 'old' and… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
A comprehensive two-hybrid analysis to explore the yeast protein interactome.
Protein-protein interactions play crucial roles in the execution of various biological functions. Accordingly, their… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
High-voltage electron tomography of spindle pole bodies and early mitotic spindles in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
The spindle pole body (SPB) is the major microtubule-organizing center of budding yeast and is the functional equivalent of the… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The spindle pole body of Schizosaccharomyces pombe enters and leaves the nuclear envelope as the cell cycle proceeds.
The cycle of spindle pole body (SPB) duplication, differentiation, and segregation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is different from… (More)
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae spindle pole body duplication gene MPS1 is part of a mitotic checkpoint
M-phase checkpoints inhibit cell division when mitotic spindle function is perturbed. Here we show that the Saccharomyces… (More)
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
The product of the spindle formation gene sad1+ associates with the fission yeast spindle pole body and is essential for viability
Spindle formation in fission yeast occurs by the interdigitation of two microtubule arrays extending from duplicated spindle pole… (More)
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
MPS1 and MPS2: novel yeast genes defining distinct steps of spindle pole body duplication
It is crucial to the eucaryotic cell cycle that the centrosome undergo precise duplication to generate the two poles of the… (More)
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Components of the yeast spindle and spindle pole body
Yeast spindle pole bodies (SPBs) with attached nuclear microtubles were enriched approximately 600-fold from yeast cell extracts… (More)
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Gamma-tubulin is a component of the spindle pole body that is essential for microtubule function in Aspergillus nidulans.
We have recently discovered that the mipA gene of A. nidulans encodes gamma-tubulin, a new member of the tubulin superfamily. To… (More)
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Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Yeast gene required for spindle pole body duplication: homology of its product with Ca2+-binding proteins.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains bearing temperature-sensitive alleles of the cell division cycle gene CDC31 are specifically… (More)
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