Cloning of cDNAs for the pituitary glycoprotein hormone alpha subunit precursor molecules in three amphibian species, Bufo japonicus, Rana catesbeiana, and Cynops pyrrhogaster

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 46-53

  Arai, Yuta ^a   Kubokawa, Kaoru ^b   Ishii, Susumu ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; THYROTROPIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BUFO JAPONICUS; CYNOPS PYRRHOGASTER; RANA CATESBEIANA;

EID: 0032189796     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7127     Document Type: Article

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