Condensins: Universal organizers of chromosomes with diverse functions

Genes and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1659-1678

  Hirano, Tatsuya ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromosome condensation; Condensins; Sister chromatid separation; SMC proteins

Indexed keywords

AURORA B KINASE; CONDENSIN; CONDENSIN I; CONDENSIN II; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL LINE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MICROCEPHALY; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUKARYOTA; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84864752050     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.194746.112     Document Type: Review

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