Functional study of an aberrant splicing variant of the human luteinizing hormone (LH) receptor

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 129-135

  Han, Bing ^a   Wang, Zhi Quan ^a   Xue, Li Qiong ^a   Ma, Jun Hua ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Liu, Bing Li ^a   Wu, Jia Jun ^a   Pan, Chun Ming ^a   Chen, Xia ^b   Zhao, Shuang Xia ^a   Lu, Ying Li ^a   Wu, Wan Ling ^a   Qiao, Jie ^a   Song, Huai Dong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Function study; LHR; Splicing variant

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYSTEINE; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT PROTEIN; LIGAND; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENT; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCTION; RNA STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WILD TYPE;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; EXONS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, LH; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 84863271901     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gar065     Document Type: Article

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