Molecular cloning of the precursor cDNA for schistostatins, locust allatostatin-like peptides with myoinhibiting properties

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-198

  Vanden Broeck, Jozef ^a   Veelaert, Dirk ^a   Bendena, William G ^b   Tobe, Stephen S ^c   De Loof, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

(Schistocerca gregaria); Allatostatin; cDNA; Myotropin; Neuropeptide; Precursor

Indexed keywords

ALLATOSTATIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SCHISTOSTATIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVIDUCT; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GRASSHOPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROPEPTIDES; OVIDUCTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030592234     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(96)03890-7     Document Type: Article

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