Chfr defines a mitotic stress checkpoint that delays entry into metaphase

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6794, 2000, Pages 430-435

  Scolnick, Daniel M ^a,b   Halazonetis, Thanos D ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CENTROSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENES, CDC; HUMANS; METAPHASE; MITOTIC INDEX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034721154     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35019108     Document Type: Article

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