Nek2B stimulates zygotic centrosome assembly in Xenopus laevis in a kinase-independent manner

Developmental Biology

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 384-398

  Twomey, Ciara ^a,b   Wattam, Samantha L ^a   Pillai, Meenu R ^a,c   Rapley, Joe ^a   Baxter, Joanne E ^a   Fry, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Millennium Pharmaceuticals Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Centriole; Centrosome; Kinase; Mitosis; Nek2; NIMA; Oogenesis; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

EGG PROTEIN; NEK2B PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STIMULATION; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOSE RESPONSE; KINETOSOME; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS RATE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERM; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; ASTER; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0346022966     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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