Potential link between the NIMA mitotic kinase and nuclear membrane fission during mitotic exit in Aspergillus nidulans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1443-1444

  Davies, Jonathan R ^a   Osmani, Aysha H ^a   De Souza, Colin P C ^a   Bachewich, Catherine ^b   Osmani, Stephen A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NIMA PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TIME; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ALLELES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPLASM; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE DELETION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOSIS; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 9244251253     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.6.1433-1444.2004     Document Type: Article

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