The Caenorhabditis elegans Aurora B kinase AIR-2 phosphorylates and is required for the localization of a BimC kinesin to meiotic and mitotic spindles

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 742-756

  Bishop, John D ^a,c   Han, Zkenbo ^a   Schumacker, Jill M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c INVITROGEN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA B KINASE AIR 2; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; KINESIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; MOLECULAR MOTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TELOPHASE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINESIN; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; THREONINE; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 12844254918     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-08-0682     Document Type: Article

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