Structural characterization of sulfated steroids that activate mouse pheromone-sensing neurons

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 14009-14019

  Hsu, Fong Fu ^a   Nodari, Francesco ^b   Kao, Lung Fa ^c   Fu, Xiaoyan ^b   Holekamp, Terrence F ^b   Turk, John ^a   Holy, Timothy E ^b  

^a Mass Spectrometry Resource   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL IDENTITY; ESI MASS SPECTROMETRY; H-D EXCHANGE; HETERONUCLEAR; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; LINEAR ION TRAP; MULTIPLE-QUANTUM COHERENCES; PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SIGNALING; STEROID HORMONE; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; TANDEM QUADRUPOLE; TOTAL CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; VOMERONASAL ORGANS;

HORMONES; ION EXCHANGE; LIPIDS; MAMMALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEURONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; SIGNALING;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON 13; HYDROGEN; PHEROMONE; PREGNANE DERIVATIVE; STEROID; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; HETERONUCLEAR MULTIPLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEURONS; PHEROMONES; PREGNENEDIONES; STEROIDS; SULFATES;

EID: 58849145238     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801392j     Document Type: Article

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