The kinase VRK1 is required for normal meiotic progression in mammalian oogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 178-190

  Schober, Carolyn S ^a   Aydiner, Fulya ^a,b   Booth, Carmen J ^a   Seli, Emre ^a   Reinke, Valerie ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Meiosis; Mouse; Oogenesis; P53; VRK1

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINIA RELATED KINASE 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HISTONES; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79952900211     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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