The biological action of choriogonadotropin is not dependent on the complete native quaternary interactions between the subunits

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2175-2188

  Jackson, Alison M ^a   Berger, Peter ^b   Pixley, Mary ^a   Klein, Cynthia ^c   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^c   Boime, Irving ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033310391     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/mend.13.12.0397     Document Type: Article

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