Article
Chicken oocytes and somatic cells express different splice variants of a multifunctional receptor.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 6 Oct 1995
Bujo H, Lindstedt K A, Hermann M, Dalmau L M, Nimpf J, Schneider W J
Abstract excerpt
An abundant 95-kDa protein belonging to the low density lipoprotein receptor supergene family is essential for chicken oocyte growth by mediating the uptake of multiple plasma-borne yolk precursors. This receptor harbors at the amino terminus a cluster of eight tandemly arranged repeats typical o...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chickens
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Complementary
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oocytes
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA Splicing
- RNA, Messenger
- Rabbits
- Rats
- Receptors, LDL
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid