Geminin is cleaved by caspase-3 during apoptosis in Xenopus egg extracts

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 361, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 276-280

  Auziol, Camille ^a   Méchali, Marcel ^a   Maiorano, Domenico ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

6 DMAP; Cell cycle; Chromatin; DNA replication; Licensing

Indexed keywords

6 N,N DIMETHYLADENINE; CASPASE 3; GEMININ; HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EGG; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; XENOPUS;

ADENINE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL EXTRACTS; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; MITOSIS; OVUM; XENOPUS;

EID: 34547548354     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.06.117     Document Type: Article

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