The peptide pQFYRFamide is encoded on the FMRFamide precursor of the snail Helix aspersa but does not activate the FMRFamide-Gated sodium current

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 341-352

  Price, D A ^a   Doble, K E ^a   Lesser, W ^a   Greenberg, M J ^a   Swiderek, K M ^b   Lee, T D ^b   Lutz, E M ^c   Sommerville, J ^c   Falconer, S ^c   Cottrell, G A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPAEA NEMORALIS; GASTROPODA; HELIX ASPERSA; HELIX POMATIA; POLYDONTES;

FANACH PROTEIN, HELIX ASPERSA; FMRFAMIDE PRECURSOR; GLP PHENYLALANYL TYROSYL ARGINYL PHENYLALANINAMIDE; GLP-PHENYLALANYL-TYROSYL-ARGINYL-PHENYLALANINAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE PROTEIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HELIX (SNAIL); METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HEART; HELIX (SNAILS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0030341921     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543007     Document Type: Article

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