Luteinizing hormone receptor-stimulated progesterone production by preovulatory granulosa cells requires protein kinase A-dependent activation/dephosphorylation of the actin dynamizing protein cofilin

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1765-1781

  Karlsson, Amelia B ^a,b   Maizels, Evelyn T ^a   Flynn, Maxfield P ^a   Jones, Jonathan C ^a   Shelden, Eric A ^b   Bamburg, James R ^c   Hunzicker Dunn, Mary ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COFILIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROGESTERONE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GRANULOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PREOVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, LH; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77956130620     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2009-0487     Document Type: Article

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