Aurora kinases and spindle assembly: Variations on a common theme?

Cell Cycle

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 895-903

  Joukov, Vladimir ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aurora kinases; Centrosome; Cep192; Chromosome passenger complex; Kinetochore; Microtubule organizing center; Spindle assembly

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; AURORA B KINASE; CENTROSOME PROTEIN 192; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TARGETING PROTEIN FOR XKLP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SPINDLE MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY;

EID: 79952649603     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.10.6.14909     Document Type: Review

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