Functional analysis of human/chicken transferrin receptor chimeras indicates that the carboxy-terminal region is important for ligand binding

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 235, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 9-17

  Buchegger, Franz ^a,c   Trowbridge, Ian S ^a   Liu, Li Fung Sue ^a   White, Suhaila ^a   Collawn, James F ^b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

chimeric transferrin receptors; transferrin binding site

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030064479     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0009u.x     Document Type: Article

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