Post-translational modifications of the insect sulfakinins: Sulfation, pyroglutamate-formation and O-methylation of glutamic acid

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 552-560

  Predel, Reinhard ^a,b   Brandt, Wolf ^b   Kellner, Roland ^c,e   Rapus, Jürgen ^a   Nachman, Ronald J ^d   Gade, Gerd ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^d SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Insect neuropeptides; Periplaneta americana; Post translational modification; Sulfakinin

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; INSECT PROTEIN; KININ DERIVATIVE; PYROGLUTAMIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COCKROACH; CORPUS ALLATUM; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COCKROACHES; GLUTAMIC ACID; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; INSECTA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0033565836     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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