Amino acid sequence of the ligand-binding domain of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor 1 predicts sensitivity of wild birds to effects of dioxin-like compounds

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 139-152

  Farmahin, Reza ^a,b   Manning, Gillian E ^a,b   Crump, Doug ^b   Wu, Dongmei ^b   Mundy, Lukas J ^a,b   Jones, Stephanie P ^b   Hahn, Mark E ^c   Karchner, Sibel I ^c   Giesy, John P ^d,e,f   Bursian, Steven J ^e   Zwiernik, Matthew J ^e   Fredricks, Timothy B ^e   Kennedy, Sean W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Ah receptor; Bird; Dioxin; Molecular toxicology; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AMINO ACID; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR 1; DIBENZODIOXIN DERIVATIVE; DIOXIN; DIOXIN LIKE COMPOUND; LUCIFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; LIGAND BINDING DOMAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARYL HYDROCARBON HYDROXYLASES; BINDING SITES; BIRDS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DIOXINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LETHAL DOSE 50; LIGANDS; LIVER; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

AVES; SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

EID: 84872410424     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfs259     Document Type: Article

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