Aurora-A - A guardian of poles

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 42-50

  Marumoto, Tomotoshi ^a   Zhang, Dongwei ^a   Saya, Hideyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTOKINESIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME; HUMAN; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 11144225241     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1526     Document Type: Review

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