Expression of biologically active fusion genes encoding the common α subunit and the follicle-stimulating hormone β subunit: Role of a linker sequence

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 10445-10448

  Sugahara, Tadashi ^a   Sato, Asomi ^a   Rudolf, Masataka ^a,b   Ben Menahem, David ^a   Pixley, Mary R ^a   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a,b   Boime, Irving ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; COVALENT BOND; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; DNA PRIMERS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 15844427850     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.18.10445     Document Type: Article

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