Pregnenolone-7β-hydroxylating activities of yeast-expressed mouse cytochrome P450-1A1 and mouse-tissue microsomes

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 242, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 641-647

  Doostzadeh, Jaleh ^a   Urban, Philippe ^b   Pompon, Denis ^b   Morfin, Robert ^a  

^a Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

^b CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

7 Hydroxylation; Dehydroepiandrosterone; Mouse brain microsome; Mouse liver microsome; Pregnenolone

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; STEROID MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MICROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030436261     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0641r.x     Document Type: Article

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