Bub1 and BubR1: At the interface between chromosome attachment and the spindle checkpoint

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3085-3093

  Elowe, Sabine ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUB1 RELATED PROTEIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL INTERACTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC STABILITY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SPINDLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; YEASTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79960316552     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.05326-11     Document Type: Short Survey

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