Ligand binding and activation of the Ah receptor

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 3-24

  Denison, Michael S ^a   Pandini, Alessandro ^b   Nagy, Scott R ^a   Baldwin, Enoch P ^a   Bonati, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

2,3,7,8 Tetrachlorodibenzo p dioxin; Ah receptor; Dioxin; Homology model; Ligand binding domain; TCDD

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; HUMANS; LIGANDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0037144119     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2797(02)00063-7     Document Type: Article

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