MAPK-activated protein kinase 2 is required for mouse meiotic spindle assembly and kinetochore-microtubule attachment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Yuan, Ju ^a   Xu, Bao Zeng ^a   Qi, Shu Tao ^a   Tong, Jing Shan ^a   Wei, Liang ^a   Li, Mo ^a   Ouyang, Ying Chun ^a   Hou, Yi ^a   Schatten, Heide ^b   Sun, Qing Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 2; NOCODAZOLE; PACLITAXEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COLD TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MIOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; SISTER CHROMATID; ANIMAL; CELL FRACTIONATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; NONDISJUNCTION;

ANIMALS; KINETOCHORES; MAP KINASE KINASE 2; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NOCODAZOLE; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; OOCYTES; PACLITAXEL; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 77956201045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011247     Document Type: Article

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