Novel bradykinins and their precursor cDNAs from European yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata) skin

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 269, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 4693-4700

  Chen, Tianbao ^a,b   Orr, David F ^a   Bjourson, Anthony J ^a   McClean, Stephen ^a   O'Rourke, Martin ^a   Hirst, David G ^a   Rao, Pingfan ^b   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Bradykinin; Cloning; Precursor; Skin

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ DERIVATIVE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRECURSOR; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN SECRETION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TOAD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRADYKININ; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BOMBINA; BOMBINA VARIEGATA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0036380755     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03174.x     Document Type: Article

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