Evolution of the androgen receptor: Structure-function implications

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 860-869

  Thornton, Joseph W ^a   Kelley, Darcy B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA; EVOLUTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGANDS; MALE; MAMMALS; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TESTOSTERONE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032190991     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199810)20:10<860::AID-BIES12>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Review

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