A human homolog of the yeast CDC7 gene is overexpressed in some tumors and transformed cell lines

Gene

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 133-140

  Hess, Gerard F ^a   Drong, Roger F ^a   Weiland, Katherine L ^a   Slightom, Jerry L ^a   Sclafani, Robert A ^b   Hollingsworth, Robert E ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell division cycle; Cyclin dependent kinases; DNA replication; Protein kinase

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUMOR CELL; YEAST;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CDC2-CDC28 KINASES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 2; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032574671     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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