The Xenopus laevis aurora/Ip11p-related kinase pEg2 participates in the stability of the bipolar mitotic spindle

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 145-151

  Giet, Régis ^a   Prigent, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Kinase; Kinesin related protein; Spindle; Stability

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; ENZYME ANTIBODY; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE PEG2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ROSETTE FORMATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034631960     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.4903     Document Type: Article

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