Anandamide amidohydrolase of porcine brain: cDNA cloning, functional expression and site-directed mutagenesis

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids

Volumn 1441, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-84

  Goparaju, Sravan Kumar ^a   Kurahashi, Yuko ^a   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a   Ueda, Natsuo ^a   Yamamoto, Shozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amidohydrolase; Anandamide; Brain; Cannabinoid; Fatty acid amide hydrolase; Pig

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; ANANDAMIDE; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SWINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 0032883310     PISSN: 13881981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-1981(99)00143-2     Document Type: Article

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