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Maturation-Promoting Factor

Known as: MPF, M-Phase-Promoting Factor, M Phase Promoting Factor 
M Phase-Promoting Factor is a protein kinase complex that drives both the mitotic and meiotic cycles in all eukaryotic organisms. In meiosis it… 
National Institutes of Health

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CDC2 Protein KinaseChromosome CondensationCyclin B1Cyclins

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Cell Cycle Proteins

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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Cyclin B synthesis is required for sea urchin oocyte maturation.
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Mitogen activated protein kinase plays a significant role in metaphase II arrest, spindle morphology, and maintenance of maturation promoting factor activity in bovine oocytes
Mammalian oocytes are arrested at the G2/M transition of the first meiotic division from which, after reaching full size and… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
The fall of biological maturation promoting factor (MPF) and histone H1 kinase activity during anaphase and telophase in mouse oocytes
Cell fusions have been used to determine the biological activity of the MPF complex in murine oocytes during their progression… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Systems for the study of nuclear assembly, DNA replication, and nuclear breakdown in Xenopus laevis egg extracts.
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Fission yeast p13 blocks mitotic activation and tyrosine dephosphorylation of the Xenopus cdc2 protein kinase
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Regulation of MPF activity in vitro
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Active maturation-promoting factor is present in mature mouse oocytes
Cytoplasmic extracts of meiotically mature mouse oocytes were injected into immature Xenopus laevis oocytes, which underwent… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Maturation-promoting factor induces nuclear envelope breakdown in cycloheximide-arrested embryos of Xenopus laevis
We have studied the effect of maturation-promoting factor (MPF) on embryonic nuclei during the early cleavage stage of Xenopus… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Xenopus laevis oocyte calmodulin in the process of meiotic maturation.
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Method for the preparation of active maturation promoting factor (MPF) from in vitro matured oocytes of Xenopus laevis.
  • K. Drury
  • Differentiation; research in biological diversity
  • 1978
  • Corpus ID: 9418868
A method for the large scale extraction of Maturation Promoting Factor (MPF) from in vitro matured oocytes of Xenopus laevis is… 
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