Two structural variants of Nek2 kinase, termed Nek2A and Nek2B, are differentially expressed in Xenopus tissues and development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 456-464

  Uto, Katsuhiro ^a   Nakajo, Nobushige ^a   Sagata, Noriyuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Cell cycle; Development; Meiosis; Mitosis; Nek2; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH REGULATION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033560918     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9231     Document Type: Article

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