Evolution of the primate androgen receptor: A structural basis for disease

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 334-342

  Choong, Catherine S ^a,b   Kemppainen, Jon A ^a   Wilson, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MATER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Glutamine repeats; Neurodegeneration; Primate evolution; Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy; Steroid receptor phosphorylation; Transcriptional regulatory proteins; Trinucleotide repeats

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MACACA; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; VIRILIZATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EULEMUR; EULEMUR FULVUS COLLARIS; HAMADRYAS; HOMO SAPIENS; LEMUR; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0031662137     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006391     Document Type: Article

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