Caenorhabditis Elegans contains structural homologs of human prk and plk

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-113

  Ouyang, Bin ^a   Wang, Yisheng ^a   Dai, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; CDC5; nucleotide sequence; Polo family kinasc; Prk

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLONED GENE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0032996016     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10425179909008427     Document Type: Article

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