Submissions tagged with lamprey estrogen receptor
(2 documents)
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3D model of lamprey estrogen receptor with estradiol and 15α-hydroxy-estradiol
Lamprey, a basal vertebrate, contains orthologs of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor and corticoid receptor. A perplexing property of lamprey is that 15α-hydroxy-steroids are…
Received 09 January 2009 02:16 UTC; Posted 09 January 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Earth & Environment
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Motif analysis of amphioxus, lamprey and invertebrate estrogen receptors and amphioxus and human estrogen-related receptors: Towards a better understanding of estrogen receptor evolution
Background. The origins of steroid-dependent regulation of the vertebrate estrogen receptor (ER) are poorly understood. Genes with statistically significant sequence similarity to vertebrate ER…
Received 11 April 2008 21:28 UTC; Posted 14 April 2008
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
