The Ran GTPase Mediates Chromatin Signaling to Control Cortical Polarity during Polar Body Extrusion in Mouse Oocytes

Developmental Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 301-308

  Deng, Manqi ^a   Suraneni, Praveen ^a   Schultz, Richard M ^b   Li, Rong ^a  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; SIGNALING; STEMCELL

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYOSIN; RAN GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CELL POLARITY; CHROMATIN; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS WITH 4 OR MORE RINGS; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSPHERES; MICROTUBULES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MYOSIN TYPE II; OOCYTES; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THIAZOLIDINES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33846643543     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2006.11.008     Document Type: Article

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