Fundamental cell cycle kinases collaborate to ensure timely destruction of the synaptonemal complex during meiosis

EMBO Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2017, Pages 2488-2509

  Argunhan, Bilge ^a,b   Leung, Wing Kit ^a   Afshar, Negar ^a,b   Terentyev, Yaroslav ^a   Subramanian, Vijayalakshmi V ^c   Murayama, Yasuto ^b   Hochwagen, Andreas ^c   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^b   Tsubouchi, Tomomi ^a,d   Tsubouchi, Hideo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dbf4 dependent Cdc7 kinase; homologous recombination; meiosis; Polo like kinase; synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; DBF4 PROTEIN; POLO LIKE KINASE; POLO LIKE KINASE CDC5; PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL DESTRUCTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; METAPHASE; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; BUDDING YEAST; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 85022337792     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embj.201695895     Document Type: Article

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