The Polo-like kinase PLK-1 is required for nuclear envelope breakdown and the completion of meiosis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genesis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-41

  Chase, Dan ^a,d   Serafinas, Christina ^b   Ashcroft, Neville ^b   Kosinski, Mary ^b,e   Longo, Dan ^a   Ferris, Douglas K ^c   Golden, Andy ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Meiosis; NEBD; Polo like kinase

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROSOME; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE DISRUPTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; OOCYTES; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034087641     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1526-968X(200001)26:1<26::AID-GENE6>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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