AIR-2: An Aurora/Ipl1-related protein kinase associated with chromosomes and midbody microtubules is required for polar body extrusion and cytokinesis in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1635-1646

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

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aurora; Chromosomes; Cytokinesis; Meiosis; Polar bodies; RNAi

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOKINESIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PROPHASE; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0032517860     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.6.1635     Document Type: Article

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