The Polo-like kinase Plx1 is a component of the MPF amplification loop at the G2/M-phase transition of the cell cycle in Xenopus eggs

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1751-1757

  Abrieu, Ariane ^a   Brassac, Thierry ^a   Galas, Simon ^a   Fisher, Daniel ^a   Labbé, Jean Claude ^a   Dorée, Marcel ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Mitosis; MPF amplification; Polo kinase; Xenopus egg

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN A; CYCLIN B; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CDC2 PROTEIN KINASE; CDC25 PHOSPHATASE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CYCLIN A; CYCLIN B; ENZYME ACTIVATION; G2 PHASE; MATURATION-PROMOTING FACTOR; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; OVUM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031850551     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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