A member of the Ste20/PAK family of protein kinases is involved in both arrest of Xenopus oocytes at G2/prophase of the first meiotic cell cycle and in prevention of apoptosis

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 5550-5561

  Faure, Sandrine ^a   Vigneron, Suzanne ^a   Dorée, Marcel ^a   Morin, Nathalie ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell cycle arrest; Meiotic maturation; Oocyte release; X PAK1

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; INSULIN; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; MEIOSIS; MICROINJECTION; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; XENOPUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; G2 PHASE; GUANOSINE 5'-O-(3-THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); INSULIN; KINETICS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGESTERONE; PROPHASE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030880187     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.18.5550     Document Type: Article

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