Single-molecule analyses of fully functional fluorescent protein-tagged follitropin receptor reveal homodimerization and specific heterodimerization with lutropin receptor

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Mazurkiewicz, Joseph E ^a   Herrick Davis, Katharine ^a   Barroso, Margarida ^a   Ulloa Aguirre, Alfredo ^b   Lindau Shepard, Barbara ^c   Thomas, Richard M ^d   Dias, James A ^d  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH FSH receptor); Gonadotropins; Granulosa cells; Mechanisms of hormone action; Oocyte maturation

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; HOMODIMER; HYBRID PROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GRANULOSA CELL; HEK293 CELL LINE; HETERODIMERIZATION; HISTOGRAM; HORMONE BINDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLASMID;

CELL MEMBRANE; CHIMERA; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH;

EID: 84930606342     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.125781     Document Type: Article

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