Thyrotropin, follitropin, and chorionic gonadotropin expressed as a single multifunctional unit reveal remarkable permissiveness in receptor-ligand interactions

Endocrinology

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3773-3778

  Garcia Campayo, Vicenta ^a   Rajendra Kumar, T ^b   Boime, Irving ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; DIMER; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; HORMONE ANALOG; LIGAND; TETRAMER; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CHO CELL; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CRICETINAE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LIGANDS; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 0036773467     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-220336     Document Type: Article

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