Zyg-8, a Gene Required for Spindle Positioning in C. elegans, Encodes a Doublecortin-Related Kinase that Promotes Microtubule Assembly

Developmental Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 363-375

  Gönczy, Pierre ^a   Bellanger, Jean Michel ^a   Kirkham, Matthew ^b   Pozniakowski, Andrei ^b   Baumer, Karine ^a   Phillips, Jennifer B ^c   Hyman, Anthony A ^b  

^a SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAZOA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DCAMKL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NOCODAZOLE; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; ZYG8 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAPHASE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRAIN COS1; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAPHASE; ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; COS CELLS; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, REPORTER; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NOCODAZOLE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0035462443     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(01)00046-6     Document Type: Article

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