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Nature Cell Biology 1, E199 - E200 (1999)
doi:10.1038/70227
Survivin' cell-separation anxiety
John C. Reed1 & Steven I. Reed2,3
- John C. Reed is at The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
- Steven I. Reed is at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92077, USA.
- e-mail: sreed@scripps.edu
Correspondence to: John C. Reed1 e-mail: jreed@burnham.org
Abstract
Survivin, a cell-death inhibitor, localizes to the spindles of mitotic cells, and its absence causes both a failure in cell division and induction of cell death. Might survivin link the control of cell death with the regulation of cell division?
