Glycoprotein hormone receptors: Determinants in leucine-rich repeats responsible for ligand specificity

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2692-2703

  Smits, Guillaume ^a,b   Campillo, Mercedes ^c   Govaerts, Cédric ^a,d   Janssens, Veronique ^a   Richter, Christine ^a   Vassart, Gilbert ^a,b   Pardo, Leonardo ^c   Costagliola, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Duplicated genes; G protein coupled receptors; Glycoprotein hormone receptors; Leucine rich repeats; Molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; LEUCINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; COS CELLS; ELECTROSTATICS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LEUCINE; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038182549     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg260     Document Type: Article

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