Association of feather colour with constitutively active melanocortin 1 receptors in chicken

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1441-1449

  Ling, Maria K ^a   Lagerström, Malin C ^a   Fredriksson, Robert ^a   Okimoto, Ronald ^b   Mundy, Nicholas I ^c   Takeuchi, Sakae ^d   Schiöth, Helgi B ^a,e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

G protein coupled; Melanocortin receptor; MSH; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CYCLIC AMP; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FEATHER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IC 50; LIGAND BINDING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CYCLIC AMP; FEATHERS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PIGMENTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037395241     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03506.x     Document Type: Article

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