Mechanisms of relaxin receptor (LGR7/RXFP1) expression and function

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1160, Issue , 2009, Pages 60-66

  Kern, András ^a,b   Bryant Greenwood, Gillian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Cell surface delivery; Fetal membranes; Glycosylation; GPCR; GPCR dimerization; LGR7; Relaxin; RXFP1; Splice variants; Trafficking

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; HOMODIMER; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN A; RELAXIN; RELAXIN FAMILY PEPTIDE RECEPTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIRTH; CELL SURFACE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DIMERIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

EID: 64549117814     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03826.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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