MCAK is present at centromeres, midspindle and chiasmata and involved in silencing of the spindle assembly checkpoint in mammalian oocytes

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 665-684

  Vogt, E ^a   Sanhaji, M ^a,c   Klein, W ^a   Seidel, T ^a   Wordeman, L ^b   Eichenlaub Ritter, U ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; MCAK; Meiosis; Oocyte; Spindle

Indexed keywords

AURORA B KINASE; BENZYLOXYCARBONYLLEUCYLLEUCYLLEUCINAL; BUB1 RELATED PROTEIN; CENTROMERE ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; KINESIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; MITOTIC CENTROMERE ASSOCIATED KINESIN; N [4 [6 METHOXY 7 (3 MORPHOLINOPROPOXY) 4 QUINAZOLINYLAMINO]PHENYL]BENZAMIDE; NOCODAZOLE; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN MAD2; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; C BANDING; CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPODIPLOID; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROINJECTION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE MATURATION; PLOIDY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMETAPHASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPINDLE ASSEMBLY CHECKPOINT; TELOPHASE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; KINESIN; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLOIDIES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TIME FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956269625     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gaq025     Document Type: Article

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