Formation of N-pyroglutamyl peptides from N-Glu and N-Gln precursors in Aplysia neurons

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 676-681

  Garden, Rebecca W ^a   Moroz, Tatiana P ^a   Gleeson, Juliann M ^a   Floyd, Philip D ^a   Li, Lingjun ^a   Rubakhin, Stanislav S ^a   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal ganglion; Aplysia; Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry; Neuropeptide; Pyroglutamate; Single cell

Indexed keywords

5 OXOPROLYL PEPTIDASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; PYROGLUTAMIC ACID;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0032924612     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.0720676.x     Document Type: Article

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