The multiple hats of Vasa: Its functions in the germline and in cell cycle progression

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 78, Issue 10-11, 2011, Pages 861-867

  Yajima, Mamiko ^a   Wessel, Gary M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; RNA HELICASE; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASA PROTEIN;

ANAPHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL RENEWAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO CELL; GERM LINE; HUMAN; INTERPHASE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TELOPHASE; TUMOR CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

CNIDARIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80054753992     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21363     Document Type: Review

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