The NIMA-related kinase 2, Nek2, is expressed in specific stages of the meiotic cell cycle and associates with meiotic chromosomes

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2167-2177

  Rhee, Kunsoo ^a   Wolgemuth, Debra J ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Chromosome condensation; NIMA related kinases; Oogenesis; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; OKADAIC ACID; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OKADAIC ACID; OOCYTES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERE; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; MURINAE;

EID: 0030738553     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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