How Cells Avoid Aneuploidy (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

How Cells Avoid Aneuploidy

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Inhibiting AAK activity leads to defects in error correction and chromosomes (blue) being pinned near spindle poles because the kinetochores (red) near the poles fail to let go of spindle microtubules (green).

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