The mahogany protein is a receptor involved in suppression of obesity

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6723, 1999, Pages 148-152

  Nagle, Deborah L ^a   McGrail, Sonja H ^a   Vitale, James ^a   Woolf, Elizabeth A ^a   Dussault Jr , Barry J ^a   DiRocco, Lisa ^a   Holmgren, Lisa ^a   Montagno, Jill ^a   Bork, Peer ^b,c   Huszar, Dennis ^a   Fairchild Huntress, Victoria ^a   Ge, Pei ^a   Keilty, John ^a   Ebeling, Chris ^d   Baldini, Linda ^d   Gilchrist, Julie ^d   Burn, Paul ^e   Carlson, George A ^d   Moore, Karen J ^a  

^a MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d MCLAUGHLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Hoffman La Roche Department of Metabolic Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MAHOGANY PROTEIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OBESITY; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SWIETENIA;

EID: 0033545572     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18210     Document Type: Article

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