Volume of spindle pole body

Value 1.53e-3 µm^3
Organism Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Reference Wu JQ, Pollard TD. Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast. Science. 2005 Oct 14 310(5746): Supporting Online Material for reference at - www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/310/5746/310/DC1 p.6 top paragraphPubMed ID16224022
Method SPBs are an oblate ellipsoids ~0.18 µm in diameter and 0.09 µm thick during most of the cell cycle
Comments In early mitosis, SPB volume=0.85e-3µm^3, based on thickness of 0.05µm
Entered by Uri M
ID 102282