An essential function of the C. elegans ortholog of TPX2 is to localize activated Aurora A Kinase to Mitotic Spindles

Developmental Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 237-248

  Özlü, Nurhan ^a   Srayko, Martin ^a   Kinoshita, Kazuhisa ^a   Habermann, Bianca ^b   O'Toole, Eileen T ^d   Müller Reichert, Thomas ^a   Schmalz, Natalie ^a   Desai, Arshad ^a,c   Hyman, Anthony A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b Scionics Computer Innovation GmbH   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN TPX2; PROTEIN TPXL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROMERE; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 22944481829     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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