Molecular cloning, structure, and expression of a testicular follitropin receptor with selective alteration in the carboxy terminus that affects signaling function

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 458-470

  Yarney, Thaddeus A ^a   Jiang, Linggen ^a   Khan, Haseena ^a   Macdonald, Elizabeth A ^a   Laird, Dale W ^b   Sairam, M R ^a  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternate splicing; FSH receptor; Gonadotropin action; Localization; Structure function; Testis

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TESTIS;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, FSH; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TESTIS; TRANSFECTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030832693     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199712)48:4<458::AID-MRD6>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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