The roles of fission yeast Ase1 in mitotic cell division, meiotic nuclear oscillation, and cytokinesis checkpoint signaling

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1378-1395

  Yamashita, Akira ^a   Sato, Masamitsu ^b   Fujita, Akiko ^b   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a   Toda, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASE1 PROTEIN; AURORA KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DIPLOIDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST;

ACTOMYOSIN; ANAPHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOPLASM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPHASE; KINETOCHORES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OSCILLOMETRY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 14844318059     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-10-0859     Document Type: Article

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