Pairwise knockdowns of cdc2-related kinases (CRKs) in Trypanosoma brucei identified the CRKs for G1/S and G2/M transitions and demonstrated distinctive cytokinetic regulations between two developmental stages of the organism.

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Published in Eukaryot Cell on April 01, 2005

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Xiaoming Tu1, Ching C Wang

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1: Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-2280, USA.

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