Three-dimensional structures of gonadotropins

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 21-31

  Lustbader, J W ^a   Pollak, S ^a   Lobel, L ^a   Trakht, I ^a   Homans, S ^b   Brown, J M ^c   Canfield, R E ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c Martek Biosciences Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

subunit; 3 D structure; Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG); NMR; Phage display

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON 13; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; DEGLYCOCHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; NITROGEN 15; SECRETORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CHO CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEGLYCOSYLATION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HORMONE URINE LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RECEPTORS, LH; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0030596184     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(96)03952-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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