Polo kinase: The choreographer of the mitotic stage?

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 135, Issue 6 II, 1996, Pages 1681-1684

  Glover, David M ^a   Ohkura, Hiroyuki ^a   Tavares, Álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CENTROSOME; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; MITOSIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MITOSIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 0030447434     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.135.6.1681     Document Type: Review

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