Effect of modification of all loop regions in the α- and β-subunits of human choriogonadotropin on its signal transduction activity

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 173-182

  Shao, Kui ^a   Purohit, Sarla ^a   Bahl, Om P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Choriogonadotropin; Glycoprotein hormone; Site directed mutagenesis; Hairpin loops

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BACULOVIRIDAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECEPTORS, LH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0030592256     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(96)03882-8     Document Type: Article

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