Mammalian homologues of the plant Tousled gene code for cell-cycle-regulated kinases with maximal activities linked to ongoing DNA replication

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 5691-5702

  Sillje H H W ^a   Takahashi, K ^a,b   Tanaka, K ^a,c   Van Houwe, G ^a   Nigg, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Development; Protein kinase; S phase; Tousled

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CELL CYCLE; DIMERIZATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, PLANT; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033570172     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.20.5691     Document Type: Article

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