Targeting a kinetochore-associated motor protein to kill cancer cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 5699-5700

  Wacker, Sarah A ^a   Kapoor, Tarun M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CENTROMERE PROTEIN E; GSK 923295; KINESIN; KINESIN 5; MONASTROL; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER CELL; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL KILLING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEUROTOXICITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING;

ANIMALS; ANTIMITOTIC AGENTS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; HUMANS; KINESIN; KINETOCHORES; MITOSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77950539813     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001277107     Document Type: Note

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