Alpha-fetoprotein inhibits frog metamorphosis: Implications for protein motif conservation

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-45

  Butterstein, George M ^a   Mizejewski, Gerald J ^b  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha fetoprotein (AFP); Frog; Metamorphosis; Peptides; Tadpole; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; LIOTHYRONINE; OROSOMUCOID; TRANSFERRIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; GROWTH REGULATION; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; MAMMALIA; RANA CATESBEIANA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032824201     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00088-4     Document Type: Article

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