The NIMA-related kinase X-Nek2B is required for efficient assembly of the zygotic centrosome in Xenopus laevis

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1973-1984

  Fry, Andrew M ^a   Descombes, Patrick ^b   Twomey, Ciara ^a   Bacchieri, Rachid ^a   Nigg, Erich A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Centrosome; Nek2; NIMA; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

GAMMA TUBULIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; EMBRYO CELL; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CELL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MITOSIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SPERMATOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034091353     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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