Aurora-A acts as a tumor suppressor and regulates self-renewal of Drosophila neuroblasts

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 3453-3463

  Wang, Hongyan ^a,b   Somers, Gregory W ^a   Bashirullah, Arash ^c   Heberlein, Ulrike ^b   Yu, Fengwei ^a   Chia, William ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric division; Neuroblast; Self renewal; Stem cells; Tumor suppressor

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; LARVA; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NEURONS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; STEM CELLS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 33845704687     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1487506     Document Type: Article

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