PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - do Carmo Avides, Maria
AU  - Glover, David M.
TI  - Abnormal Spindle Protein, Asp, and the Integrity of Mitotic Centrosomal Microtubule Organizing Centers
AID  - 10.1126/science.283.5408.1733
DP  - 1999 Mar 12
TA  - Science
PG  - 1733--1735
VI  - 283
IP  - 5408
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/283/5408/1733.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/283/5408/1733.full
SO  - Science1999 Mar 12; 283
AB  - The product of the abnormal spindle (asp) gene was found to be an asymmetrically localized component of the centrosome during mitosis, required to focus the poles of the mitotic spindle in vivo. Removing Asp protein function from Drosophila melanogaster embryo extracts, either by mutation or immunodepletion, resulted in loss of their ability to restore microtubule-organizing center activity to salt-stripped centrosome preparations. This was corrected by addition of purified Asp protein. Thus, Asp appears to hold together the microtubule-nucleating γ-tubulin ring complexes that organize the mitotic centrosome.