Cloning of an unusual natriuretic peptide from the South American coral snake Micrurus corallinus

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 144-149

  Ho, Paulo Lee ^a,d   Soares, Marcelo Bento ^b   Maack, Thomas ^c   Gimenez, Ignacio ^c   Puorto, Giuseppe ^d   Furtado, Maria De Fátima Domingues ^d   Raw, Isaias ^a  

^a Centro de Biotecnologia   (Brazil)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Micrurus; Natriuretic peptide; Snake venom

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; SNAKE VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART; ISOLATED KIDNEY; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SNAKE; SODIUM EXCRETION; TISSUE LEVEL; URINE VOLUME;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; MICRURUS; MICRURUS CORALLINUS; PANTHEROPHIS OBSOLETUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0030781570     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00144.x     Document Type: Article

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