Chicken progesterone

Poletti A, Weigel N L, McDonnell D P, Schrader W T, O Malley B W, Conneely O M (1992). A novel, highly regulated, rapidly inducible system for the expression of chicken progesterone receptor, cPRa, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gene 114 51-58. 

Jeltsch, J.M., Krozowski, Z., Quirin-Stricker, C. et al. (1986). Cloning the chicken progesterone receptor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 83, 5424-8. 

Poletti, A., Conneely, O.M., McDonnell, D.P., Schrader, W.T., O Malley, B.W. WeigeL N.L. (1993). Chicken progesterone-receptor expressed in Saccharomyces caevisiae is correctly phosphorylated at all 4 ser-pro phosphorylation sites. Biochemistry, 32, 9563-9. 

Carson-Jurica MA, Lee AT, Dobson AW, Conneely OM, Schrader WT, O Malley BW (1989) Interaction of the chicken progesterone receptor with heat shock protein (hsp) 90. J Steroid Biochem 34 1-9 Cervera J (1985) Induction of self-tolerance and enhanced stress protein synthesis in L-132 cells by cadmium chloride and by hyperthermia. Cell Biol Int Rep 9 131-141... 

Tora L, Gronemeyer H, Turcotte B, Gaub MP, Chambon P (1988) The N-terminal region of the chicken progesterone receptor specifies target gene activation. Nature 333 185-188... 

Reproductive impairment was reported in several species of waterfowl from a marsh treated with 1.12 kg technical chlordane/ha (Table 13.4). Studies by Lundholm (1988) with two species of ducks (Anas spp.) and the domestic chicken (Gallus sp.) demonstrated that various organochlorine compounds, including chlordane, interfered (in a dose-dependent manner) with reproduction by reducing the binding of progesterone to its cytoplasmic receptor in the shell gland mucosa of birds, especially ducks. 

It has now been found that the glucocorticoid response elements of mouse mammary tumour virus and the gene for chicken lysozyme also bind progesterone re-... 

In chicken granulosa cells, TMB-8, a putative antagonist of intracellular calcium mobilization, inhibited progesterone synthesis in calcium free medium and also inhibited LH stimulated 45Ca release from digitonin permeabilized cells [31]. The latter occurred in two phases after 1-2 min followed by a slower phase after 5 min. Forskolin and 8-Br-cyclic AMP stimulated only the slow phase of calcium mobilization. These studies indicate that LH may initially stimulate calcium mobilization in granulosa cells via a cyclic AMP-independent pathway followed by a slower cyclic AMP-dependent pathway. 

Hecht, A., Berkenstamm, A., Stromstedt, P.-E., Gustaksoa J -A. Sippel, A.E. (1988). A progesterone responsive element maps to the far upstream steroid dependent DNAse hypersensitive site of the chicken lysozyme chromatin. EMBO ]., 7, 2063-73. 

Nakao, M., Mizutani, T Bhakta, A., Ribarac-Stepic, N. Moudgil, V.K. (1992). Phosphorylation of chicken oviduct progesterone receptor by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 298, 340-8. 

Erikson E, Stefanovic D, Blenis J, Erikson RL, Mailer JL. 1987. Antibodies to Xenopus egg S6 kinase II recognize S6 kinase from progesterone- and insulin-stimulated Xenopus oocytes and from proliferating chicken embryo fibroblasts. Mol Cell Biol 7(9) 3147-3155. 

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