A highly conserved centrosomal kinase, AIR-1, is required for accurate cell cycle progression and segregation of developmental factors in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4391-4402

  Schumacher, Jill M ^a   Ashcroft, Neville ^b   Donovan, Peter J ^a,c   Golden, Andy ^b  

^a Cell Biol Devmt/Differentiation G   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aurora; Caenorhabditis elegans; Centrosome; Microtubule; P granule; PIE 1

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL GRANULE; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; LETHAL MUTANT; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031673072     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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