Unmasking a new recognition signal for O-linked glycosylation in the chorionic gonadotropin β subunit

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 194, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 63-70

  Garcia Campayo, Vicenta ^a   Sugahara, Tadashi ^b   Boime, Irving ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology   (Japan)

Author keywords

CTP; Gonadotropin; O Glycosylation; Structure function

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; SERINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR BINDING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHO CELL; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CRICETINAE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, LH; SERINE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0037200662     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(02)00189-2     Document Type: Article

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