Bioactive motifs of agouti signal protein

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 54-63

  Virador, Victoria M ^a   Santis, Chie ^a   Furumura, Minao ^a   Kalbacher, Hubert ^b   Hearing, Vincent J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agouti; Antagonist; G protein; Melanocortin; Receptor

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI SIGNAL PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; ARGININE; CYCLIC AMP; HORMONE RECEPTOR; LYSINE; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0034714524     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.4975     Document Type: Article

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