In-silico modeling of the Mitotic Spindle Assembly Checkpoint

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Ibrahim, Bashar ^a,b   Diekmann, Stephan ^c   Schmitt, Eberhard ^c   Dittrich, Peter ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Jena Centre for Bioinformatics JCB   (Germany)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 20; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MAD1; PROTEIN MAD2; ANAPHASE PROMOTING COMPLEX; ANAPHASE-PROMOTING COMPLEX; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CDC20 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MAD1L1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MAD2L1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; KINETICS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANAPHASE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; METAPHASE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE COMPLEXES;

EID: 45249083224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001555     Document Type: Article

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