Characterization of the cDNA encoding the prohormone convertase PC2 and localization of the mRNA in the brain of the frog Rana ridibunda

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-13

  Vieau, Didier ^a   Gangnon, Françoise ^a   Jégou, Sylvie ^a   Danger, Jean Michel ^a   Vaudry, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Frog brain; In situ hybridization; Neuropeptides; Proprotein convertase; Proteolytic processing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FURIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FROG; GENE LOCATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY GLAND; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 2; RANA RIDIBUNDA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBTILISINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA CLAMITANS; RANA RIDIBUNDA;

EID: 0032506660     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00235-6     Document Type: Article

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