Hormone-specific inhibitory influence of α-subunit Asn56 oligosaccharide on in vitro subunit association and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor binding of equine gonadotropins

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 458-469

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

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; CARBOHYDRATE; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROGESTERONE; SERIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHO CELL; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIORECEPTOR ASSAY; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CRICETINAE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; GONADOTROPINS, EQUINE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MUTATION; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; RATS; RECEPTORS, FSH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 0031933747     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.2.458     Document Type: Article

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