Polo-like kinases: Structural variations lead to multiple functions

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 433-452

  Zitouni, Sihem ^a   Nabais, Catarina ^a   Jana, Swadhin Chandra ^a   Guerrero, Adán ^a,b   Bettencourt Dias, Mónica ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLO LIKE KINASE; POLO LIKE KINASE 1; POLO LIKE KINASE 2; POLO LIKE KINASE 3; POLO LIKE KINASE 4; POLO LIKE KINASE 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROSOME; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; G2 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

EID: 84904601445     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3819     Document Type: Review

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