Evolution of steroid receptors from an estrogen-sensitive ancestral receptor

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 334, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 31-38

  Eick, Geeta N ^a   Thornton, Joseph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Estrogen receptor; Evolution; Progestagens; Progesterone receptor; Steroid hormones; Steroid receptors; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN SENSITIVE ANCESTRAL RECEPTOR; GESTAGEN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; DNA; ESTROGENS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; STEROIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79951672289     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2010.09.003     Document Type: Review

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