A Ran signalling pathway mediated by the mitotic kinase Aurora A in spindle assembly

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 242-248

  Tsai, Ming Ying ^a   Wiese, Christiane ^b   Cao, Kan ^a   Martin, Ona ^a   Donovan, Peter ^c   Ruderman, Joan ^d   Prigent, Claude ^e   Zheng, Yixian ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; CELL ENZYME; CELL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN BETA; KINESIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN NUMA; PROTEIN TPX2; RAN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HYPOTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037341906     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb936     Document Type: Article

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