A single starfish Aurora kinase performs the combined functions of Aurora-A and Aurora-B in human cells

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 123, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 3978-3988

  Abe, Yusuke ^a   Okumura, Eiichi ^a   Hosoya, Takamitsu ^a   Hirota, Toru ^b   Kishimoto, Takeo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aurora kinase; INCENP; Mitotic kinases; Molecular evolution; TPX2

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; AURORA B KINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; EMBRYO; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPINDLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; STARFISH; TRANSFECTION;

ASTERINA PECTINIFERA; ASTEROIDEA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78649740478     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.076315     Document Type: Article

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