A new identity for MLK3 as an NIMA-related, cell cycle-regulated kinase that is localized near centrosomes and influences microtubule organization

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 156-172

  Swenson, Katherine I ^a   Winkler, Katharine E ^a   Means, Anthony R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYCLIN B; FUNGAL ENZYME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MIXED LINEAGE KINASE 3; PHOSPHATASE; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN KINASE NIMA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RNA; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL CYCLE; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FUNGAL GENE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NEVER IN MITOSIS A GENE; NIMA GENE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROSOME; HUMANS; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037238388     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-02-0115     Document Type: Article

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