Regulation of Aurora-A kinase on the mitotic spindle

Chromosoma

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 159-163

  Kufer, Thomas A ^a   Nigg, Erich A ^a   Silljé, Herman H W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE AURORA A; RAN PROTEIN; SERINE; TARGETING PROTEIN FOR XKLP2; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANEUPLOIDY; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REGULATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; TUMOR;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0347985493     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-003-0265-1     Document Type: Review

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