Cloning of cDNAs encoding the three pituitary glycoprotein hormone β subunit precursor molecules in the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 333-347

  Komoike, Yuta ^a   Ishii, Susumu ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FSH; Japanese toad; LH; Phylogeny; Pituitary glycoprotein hormone subunits; Polymorphism; TSH

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; APOPROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; THYROTROPIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHIMERA; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FISH; FOWL; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILENT GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOAD; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

BUFO JAPONICUS;

EID: 0038615894     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(03)00095-9     Document Type: Article

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