CENP-A: The key player behind centromere identity, propagation, and kinetochore assembly

Chromosoma

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 527-538

  De Rop, Valérie ^a   Padeganeh, Abbas ^a   Maddox, Paul S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CENTROMERE PROTEIN C; CHAPERONE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; HISTONE H3; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER THERAPY; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CENTROMERE IDENTITY; CENTROMERE PROPAGATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; KINETOCHORE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MITOSIS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84872072332     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-012-0386-5     Document Type: Review

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