A novel prohormone processing site in aplysia californica: The Leu-Leu rule

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1398-1405

  Hummon, Amanda B ^a   Huang, He Qing ^a,b   Kelley, Wayne P ^a   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^a  

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

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Leucine Leucine cleavages; MALDI MS; Neuropeptides; Prohormone processing

Indexed keywords

DIAMINO ACID; EDETIC ACID; HORMONE PRECURSOR; LEUCINE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PEPTIDASE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; GANGLION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TISSUE HOMOGENATE;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; CHELATING AGENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EDETIC ACID; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HORMONES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEUCINE; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ANIMALIA; APLYSIA; APLYSIA CALIFORNICA;

EID: 0036733138     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2002.01070.x     Document Type: Article

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