TPX2: Of spindle assembly, DNA damage response, and cancer

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 3027-3047

  Neumayer, Gernot ^a   Belzil, Camille ^a   Gruss, Oliver J ^b   Nguyen, Minh Dang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancers; Cell Cycle; Cytoskeleton; DNA damage; Mitosis; Spindle; TPX2

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; HISTONE H2AX; KARYOPHERIN; KINESIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PACLITAXEL; RAN PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TARGETING PROTEIN FOR XKLP2; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOPUS KINESIN LIKE PROTEIN 2;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DNA DAMAGE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOSIS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 84905121578     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-014-1582-7     Document Type: Review

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