The cellular geography of Aurora kinases

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 842-854

  Carmena, Mar ^a   Earnshaw, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOMES; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0242551545     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1245     Document Type: Review

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