The case for Survivin as mitotic regulator

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 616-622

  Lens, Susanne MA ^a   Vader, Gerben ^a   Medema, René H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA B KINASE; SURVIVIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOKINESIS; GENE FUNCTION; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 33750827351     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2006.08.016     Document Type: Review

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