An unusual member of the human growth hormone/placental lactogen (GH/PL) family, the testicular alternative splicing variant hPL-A2: Recombinant expression revealed a membrane-associated growth factor molecule

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 167, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 117-125

  Untergasser, G ^a   Hermann, M ^a   Rumpold, H ^a   Pfister, G ^a   Berger, P ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Baculovirus; Growth hormone; Placental lactogen; Recombinant production; Testis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLACENTA LACTOGEN; PLACENTA LACTOGEN A2; RECOMBINANT HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN VARIANT;

AGED; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACULOVIRIDAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INTRONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL LACTOGEN; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034715062     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(00)00287-2     Document Type: Article

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