Meiotic cell cycle in Xenopus oocytes is independent of cdk2 kinase

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 3860-3865

  Furuno, Nobuaki ^a   Ogawa, Yasuki ^b   Iwashita, Jun ^a   Nakajo, Nobushige ^a   Sagata, Noriyuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cdk2 kinase; Metaphase II arrest; Mos; MPF activation; Xenopus oocyte meiosis

Indexed keywords

MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN P21;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CDC2-CDC28 KINASES; CELL CYCLE; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 2; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; CYCLINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; MATURATION-PROMOTING FACTOR; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MOS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0030997472     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.13.3860     Document Type: Article

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