Cell cycle control of eukaryotic DNA replication

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 208-214

  Kearsey, Stephen E ^a   Labib, Karim ^a   Maiorano, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE;

CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SYNTHESIS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MINICHROMOSOME; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST CELL;

EID: 0029924627     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(96)80052-9     Document Type: Article

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