DdNek2, the first non-vertebrate homologue of human Nek2, is involved in the formation of microtubule-organizing centers

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1919-1929

  Gräf, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centrosome; Dictyostelium; Nek2; NIMA related kinase; Spindle pole body

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; NEK2 PROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NEK2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NEK2A PROTEIN, XENOPUS; NEK2B PROTEIN, XENOPUS; PHOTOPROTEIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MITOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DICTYOSTELIUM; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROSOME; DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0036558294     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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