Maturation-Promoting Factor

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A cell cycle checkpoint monitors cell morphogenesis in budding yeast. 
  • Calmodulin, cell growth and gene expression. 
  • DNA replication and progression through the cell cycle. 
  • Essential roles for calcium and calmodulin in G2/M progression in Aspergillus nidulans. 
  • In vitro cell cycle arrest induced by using artificial DNA templates. 
  • Phosphatases driving mitosis: pushing the gas and lifting the brakes. 
  • Phosphorylation of myosin-II regulatory light chain by cyclin-p34cdc2: a mechanism for the timing of cytokinesis. 
  • The antibiotic azatyrosine suppresses progesterone or [Val12]p21 Ha-ras/insulin-like growth factor I-induced germinal vesicle breakdown and tyrosine phosphorylation of Xenopus mitogen-activated protein kinase in oocytes.