Structure, function and regulation of gonadotropin receptors - A perspective

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 356, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 88-97

  Menon, K M J ^a   Menon, Bindu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

FSH receptor; LH receptor; Post transcriptional regulation; RNA binding protein

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RETINA S ANTIGEN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; CELL FRACTIONATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY CYCLE; PALMITOYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84859648453     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2012.01.021     Document Type: Review

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