Absence of Wee1 ensures the meiotic cell cycle in Xenopus oocytes

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 328-338

  Nakajo, Nobushige ^a   Yoshitome, Satoshi ^a   Iwashita, Jun ^a,b   Iida, Maki ^a   Uto, Katsuhiro ^a   Ueno, Shuichi ^a   Okamoto, Kengo ^a   Sagata, Noriyuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Meiosis; Mos; S phase; Wee1; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; INTERPHASE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEIOSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; PROPHASE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; S PHASE; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0034141887     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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