Cdk7 is essential for mitosis and for in vivo Cdk-activating kinase activity

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 370-381

  Larochelle, Stéphane ^a   Pandur, Judit ^a   Fisher, Robert P ^b   Salz, Helen K ^c   Suter, Beat ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CAK; Cdk; Cell cycle; Drosophila; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN A; CYCLIN B; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GROWTH REGULATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS;

METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032005801     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.3.370     Document Type: Article

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