Nonassembled human chorionic gonadotropin subunits and αα- homodimers use fast-track processing in the secretory pathway in contrast to αβ-heterodimers

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5831-5841

  Merz, Wolfgang E ^a   Krause, Jean Michel ^a   Roig, Jordi ^a   Singh, Vinod ^a,c   Berger, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALNEXIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; HETERODIMER;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIALYLATION;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 36348986740     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0789     Document Type: Article

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