Polo-like kinases: A team that plays throughout mitosis

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3777-3787

  Glover, David M ^a   Hagan, Iain M ^b   Tavares, Álvaro A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANAPHASE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CYTOKINESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HUMAN; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW;

EID: 0032535244     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.24.3777     Document Type: Review

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