Kinetochore microtubules shorten by loss of subunits at the kinetochores of prometaphase chromosomes

Dynamic instability of individual microtubules analyzed by video light microscopy: rate constants and transition frequencies.

1988 • 985 citations

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1977 • 767 citations

Polewards microtubule flux in the mitotic spindle: evidence from photoactivation of fluorescence.

1989 • 603 citations

MAP 1C is a microtubule-activated ATPase which translocates microtubules in vitro and has dynein-like properties.

1987 • 563 citations

Kinetochores are transported poleward along a single astral microtubule during chromosome attachment to the spindle in newt lung cells.

1990 • 488 citations

Sites of microtubule assembly and disassembly in the mitotic spindle

1986 • 410 citations

Polewards chromosome movement driven by microtubule depolymerization in vitro

1988 • 409 citations

Interaction of oncodazole (R 17934), a new anti-tumoral drug, with rat brain tubulin

1976 • 366 citations

Real-time observations of microtubule dynamic instability in living cells.

1988 • 364 citations

Cell division and the mitotic spindle.

1981 • 323 citations

Oscillatory movements of monooriented chromosomes and their position relative to the spindle pole result from the ejection properties of the aster and half-spindle.

1986 • 302 citations

Addition of colchicine-tubulin complex to microtubule ends: The mechanism of substoichiometric colchicine poisoning

1977 • 285 citations

Theoretical problems related to the attachment of microtubules to kinetochores.

1985 • 240 citations

The Forces that Move Chromosomes in Mitosis

1988 • 219 citations

Microtubule Dynamics and Kinetochore Function in Mitosis

1988 • 208 citations

The motor for poleward chromosome movement in anaphase is in or near the kinetochore.

1989 • 202 citations

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Dynamic instability of microtubules

1987 • 162 citations

Mitosis : molecules and mechanisms

1989 • 153 citations

Microtubule dynamics and chromosome motion visualized in living anaphase cells.

1988 • 147 citations

Functional autonomy of monopolar spindle and evidence for oscillatory movement in mitosis.

1982 • 145 citations

Microtubule Dynamics during the Cell Cycle: The Effects of Taxol and Nocodazole on the Microtubule System of Pt K2 Cells at Different Stages of the Mitotic Cycle

1986 • 143 citations

Rapid rate of tubulin dissociation from microtubules in the mitotic spindle in vivo measured by blocking polymerization with colchicine.

1984 • 142 citations

Dynamics of mitotic spindle organization and function.

1975 • 119 citations

Traction force on a kinetochore at metaphase acts as a linear function of kinetochore fiber length

1982 • 110 citations

Dynamics of microtubule depolymerization in monocytes.

1986 • 109 citations

AN INTERPRETATION OF TRANSPORT PHENOMENA AT MITOSIS*

1960 • 107 citations

Analysis of the treadmilling model during metaphase of mitosis using fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching.

1986 • 106 citations

Poleward force at the kinetochore in metaphase depends on the number of kinetochore microtubules.

1990 • 105 citations

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1975 • 105 citations

Effects of nocodazole on structures of calf brain tubulin

1980 • 100 citations

THE EFFECT OF COLCHICINE ON THE MICROSCOPIC AND SUBMICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE OF THE MITOTIC SPINDLE

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Functional implications of cold-stable microtubules in kinetochore fibers of insect spermatocytes during anaphase.

1980 • 83 citations

LUZULA AND THE MECHANISM OF CHROMOSOME MOVEMENTS

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On the mechanism of anaphase A: evidence that ATP is needed for microtubule disassembly and not generation of polewards force.

1987 • 53 citations

Microtubule dynamics in the chromosomal spindle fiber: Analysis by fluorescence and high‐resolution polarization microscopy

1988 • 46 citations

Polarized microtubule gliding and particle saltations produced by soluble factors from sea urchin eggs and embryos

1986 • 42 citations

Differential effects of mitotic poisons on spindles and chromosomes in dividing newt lung epithelia.

1982 • 4 citations