Chromosomal passengers: Conducting cell division

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 798-812

  Ruchaud, Sandrine ^a   Carmena, Mar ^a   Earnshaw, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA B KINASE; SURVIVIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANAPHASE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CYTOKINESIS; HELA CELL; HOMOZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS RATE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SOMATIC CROSSING OVER; SPINDLE CELL; TELOPHASE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOSIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 34648825331     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2257     Document Type: Review

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