Expression of biologically active fusion genes encoding the common or subunit and either the CGβ or FSHβ subunits: Role of a linker sequence

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 71-77

  Sugahara, Tadashi ^a   Grootenhuis, Peter D J ^b   Sato, Asomi ^a   Kudo, Masataka ^c   Ben Menahem, David ^a   Pixley, Mary R ^a   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^c   Boime, Irving ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NV ORGANON   (Netherlands)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologic activity; Structure function; Tethered gonadotropins

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DIMER; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CRICETINAE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0030596069     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(96)03944-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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