Giardia lamblia aurora kinase: A regulator of mitosis in a binucleate parasite

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 353-369

  Davids, Barbara J ^a   Williams, Sarah ^a   Lauwaet, Tineke ^a   Palanca, Tiffany ^a   Gillin, Frances D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aurora kinase; Cytokinesis; Cytoskeleton; Giardia lamblia; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE;

AMINO ACID; CYTOGENETICS; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE VECTOR; EUKARYOTE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITE; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; PROTIST; PROTOZOAN; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; ENUCLEATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROSOME; DIARRHEA; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITOLOGY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 38949112480     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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