Polo like kinases: Positive regulators of cell division from start to finish

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 776-783

  Nigg, Erich A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYTOKINE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UBIQUITIN;

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CENTROSOME; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SPINDLE CELL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031743063     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(98)80121-X     Document Type: Article

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