pEg7, a new Xenopus protein required for mitotic chromosome condensation in egg extracts

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1437-1446

  Cubizolles, Fabien ^a   Legagneux, Vincent ^a   Le Guellec, René ^a   Chartrain, Isabelle ^a   Uzbekov, Rustem ^a,b   Ford, Chris ^c   Le Guellec, Katherinee ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin condensation; Chromosome associated proteins; Egg extracts; Mitotic chromosomes; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; XENOPUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; OOCYTES; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE EXTRACTS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032517838     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.6.1437     Document Type: Article

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