The chromosomal passenger complex: Guiding Aurora-B through mitosis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 833-837

  Vader, Gerben ^a   Medema, René H ^a   Lens, Susanne M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA B KINASE; HISTONE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOKINESIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; KARYOTYPE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 33745275629     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200604032     Document Type: Short Survey

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