The AVIT protein family. Secreted cystein-rich vertebrate proteins with adverse functions

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 469-473

  Kaser, Alexandra ^a,b   Winklmayr, Martina ^a   Lepperdinger, Günter ^a,c   Kreil, Günther ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c Inst Biomed Aging Res Austrian A   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN AVIT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BOMBINA VARIEGATA MOLECULAR MASS 8 KDA PROTEIN; ENDOCRINE GLAND DERIVED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; MAMBA INTESTINAL PROTEIN 1;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; ILEUM CONTRACTION; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL GUINEA PIG; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; ILEUM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYSTEINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR, ENDOCRINE-GLAND-DERIVED;

ANURA; BOMBINA VARIEGATA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS; MAMMALIA; SERPENTES; SUS SCROFA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038110045     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor830     Document Type: Review

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