Structural features of mammalian gonadotropins

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 3-19

  Bousfield, George R ^a   Butnev, Viktor Y ^a   Gotschall, R Russell ^a   Baker, Vanda L ^a   Moore, William T ^b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Protein Chemistry Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Equine; Gonadotropins; Hybrid hormone; Oligosaccharide; Receptor

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; ASPARAGINE LINKED OLIGOSACCHARIDE; ASPARTIC ACID; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE; GLYCOSYLATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HORSE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SHEEP; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SWINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GLYCOSYLATION; GONADOTROPINS; HORSES; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0030596155     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(96)03945-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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