The spindle assembly checkpoint: Progress and persistent puzzles

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1755-1760

  Hauf, Silke ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LABORATORY OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaphase promoting complex (APC); Mitosis; Mitotic checkpoint; Signalling pathway; Spindle assembly checkpoint

Indexed keywords

BUB1 RELATED PROTEIN; BUB3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN MAD1; PROTEIN MAD2;

CENTROMERE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; M PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; UBIQUITINATION;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HUMANS; MITOSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 84887925042     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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