The heterodimeric ecdysteroid receptor complex in the brown shrimp Crangon crangon: EcR and RXR isoform characteristics and sensitivity towards the marine pollutant tributyltin

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 158-169

  Verhaegen, Yves ^a,b,c   Parmentier, Koen ^b   Swevers, Luc ^d   Renders, Ellen ^a   Rougé, Pierre ^e   De Coen, Wim ^c   Cooreman, Kris ^b   Smagghe, Guy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Crangon crangon; Crustacea; Ecdysteroid receptor; EcR; Retinoid X receptor; RXR; Shrimp; TBT; Tributyltin

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANGON CRAGON; DIMERIZATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HINGE REGION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING; REPORTER GENE; SEA POLLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHRIMP; TRANSACTIVATION;

EID: 79955715770     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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