Urochordate Ascidians Possess a Single Isoform of Aurora Kinase That Localizes to the Midbody via TPX2 in Eggs and Cleavage Stage Embryos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Hebras, Celine ^a   McDougall, Alex ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; AURORA B KINASE; HISTONE H1 KINASE; KINESIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; TARGETING PROTEIN FOR XENOPUS KINESIN LIKE PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; ECHINODERM; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; OVUM; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866678015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045431     Document Type: Article

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