Chromosomes move poleward in anaphase along stationary microtubules that coordinately disassemble from their kinetochore ends.

Dynamic instability of microtubule growth

1984 • 3,187 citations

Identification of a novel force-generating protein, kinesin, involved in microtubule-based motility

1985 • 1,930 citations

Tubulin dynamics in cultured mammalian cells.

1984 • 489 citations

Different axoplasmic proteins generate movement in opposite directions along microtubules in vitro

1985 • 463 citations

The Formation, Structure, and Composition of the Mammalian Kinetochore and Kinetochore Fiber

1982 • 428 citations

Sites of microtubule assembly and disassembly in the mitotic spindle

1986 • 410 citations

Microtubule dynamics in interphase cells.

1986 • 331 citations

Identification of kinesin in sea urchin eggs, and evidence for its localization in the mitotic spindle

1985 • 301 citations

Spindle microtubule dynamics in sea urchin embryos: analysis using a fluorescein-labeled tubulin and measurements of fluorescence redistribution after laser photobleaching.

1984 • 291 citations

Microtubule treadmills—possible molecular machinery

1981 • 279 citations

Theoretical problems related to the attachment of microtubules to kinetochores.

1985 • 240 citations

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1985 • 239 citations

The structure of the cold-stable kinetochore fiber in metaphase PtK1 cells

1981 • 233 citations

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1971 • 195 citations

Rethinking mitosis

1982 • 195 citations

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Polymerization of tubulin in vivo: direct evidence for assembly onto microtubule ends and from centrosomes.

1985 • 142 citations

Microtubule dynamics in vivo: a test of mechanisms of turnover.

1987 • 120 citations

Spindle microtubules and their mechanical associations after micromanipulation in anaphase.

1982 • 116 citations

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

1986 • 106 citations

Dynein-like Mg2+-ATPase in mitotic spindles isolated from sea urchin embryos (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis).

1980 • 105 citations

Microinjection of Fluorescently Labeled Proteins into Living Cells with Emphasis on Cytoskeletal Proteins

1982 • 102 citations

Interaction of microtubules and the mechanism of chromosome movement (zipper hypothesis). 1. General principle.

1973 • 75 citations

The Kinetochore of Mammalian Chromosomes: Structure and Function in Normal Mitosis and Aneuploidy

1985 • 67 citations

Assembly properties of fluorescein-labeled tubulin in vitro before and after fluorescence bleaching.

1984 • 58 citations

Micromanipulation studies of chromosome movement. II. Birefringent chromosomal fibers and the mechanical attachment of chromosomes to the spindle.

1979 • 57 citations

Spindle Structure and the Mechanisms of Chromosome Movement

1985 • 28 citations

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1986 • 12 citations