Thickness of spindle pole body

Value 0.09 µm
Organism Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Reference Wu JQ, Pollard TD. Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast. Science. 2005 Oct 14310(5746):pp. 313PubMed ID16224022
Primary Source Ding R, West RR, Morphew DM, Oakley BR, McIntosh JR. The spindle pole body of Schizosaccharomyces pombe enters and leaves the nuclear envelope as the cell cycle proceeds. Mol Biol Cell. 1997 Aug8(8):1461-79.PubMed ID9285819
Comments This value is for most of the cell cycle and 0.05 µm thick in early mitosis. Spindle pole bodies (SPBs) are plaquelike oblate ellipsoids.
Entered by Uri M
ID 102269