Elephantfish proinsulin possesses a monobasic processing site

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-208

  Gieseg, Michael A ^a   Swarbrick, Peter A ^a   Perko, Lana ^a   Powell, Robert J ^a   Cutfield, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROINSULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; STEM CELL;

EID: 0030859719     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6965     Document Type: Article

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