Experimental and computational study of inter- and intra- species specificity of gonadotropins for various gonadotropin receptors

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 364, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 89-100

  Aizen, Joseph ^a   Kowalsman, Noga ^a   Kobayashi, Makito ^b   Hollander, Lian ^a   Sohn, Young Chang ^c   Yoshizaki, Goro ^d   Niv, Masha Y ^a   Levavi Sivan, Berta ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Gangneung Wonju National University   (South Korea)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FSH; G protein coupled receptor (GPCR); Glycoprotein hormone receptor; LH; Molecular modeling; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COGNATE RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; AQUILLIFORMES; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EXON; FISH; FSHR GENE; GENE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; LHR GENE; LIGAND BINDING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERCIFORMES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SALMONIFORMES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; TROUT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; EELS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TILAPIA; TROUT;

EID: 84867504110     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2012.08.013     Document Type: Article

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