Drosophila Ajuba is not an Aurora-A activator but is required to maintain Aurora-A at the centrosome

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1156-1166

  Sabino, Dora ^a,b   Brown, Nicholas H ^b   Basto, Renata ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ajuba; Aurora A; Centrosome; Mitotic spindle; Tacc

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN AJUBA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MITOSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPINDLE CELL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVATORS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

MUS;

EID: 79953129453     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.076711     Document Type: Article

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