TY - JOUR TI - Aurora-A: an expedition to the pole of the spindle in Xenopus egg extracts AU - Kubiak, JacekZ. AU - Prigent, Claude T2 - The International Journal of Developmental Biology AB - The aim of this short review is to describe the contribution of Xenopus laevis egg extracts to the discovery and understanding of the regulation and function of the serine/threonine kinase Aurora-A. The power of these extracts to recapitulate cell cycle events makes them a precious tool to decipher complex biological processes at the molecular level, including the mechanisms that affect Aurora-A (post-translational modifications) and mechanisms in which Aurora-A plays a crucial role (bipolar spindle assembly). We focus on the results obtained in cell-free extracts, but we also give an updated overview of Aurora A functions found in other systems. PY - 2016 DO - 10.1387/ijdb.160189jk VL - 60 IS - 7-8-9 SP - 255 EP - 261 J2 - Int. J. Dev. Biol. LA - en SN - 0214-6282 SN - 1696-3547 UR - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/160189jk Y2 - 2024/04/29/07:46:35 ER -