A SUMOylation motif in Aurora-A: Implications for spindle dynamics and oncogenesis

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  de Castro, Ignacio Pérez ^a   Aguirre Portolés, Cristina ^a   Martin, Benedicte ^b   Fernández Miranda, Gonzalo ^a   Klotzbucher, Andrea ^c   Kubbutat, Michael H G ^c   Megías, Diego ^a   Arlot Bonnemains, Yannick ^b   Malumbres, Marcos ^a  

^a Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c PROQINASE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aurora A; Cancer; Kinases; Mitosis; Spindle; SUMO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891592893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2011.00050     Document Type: Article

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