Bradykinins and their cDNA from piebald odorous frog, Odorrana schmackeri, skin

Peptides

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 863-872

  Li, Long ^a,b   Bjourson, Anthony J ^a   He, Jianyuan ^c   Cai, Guangxian ^c   Rao, Pingfan ^b   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Wuyishan National Key Nature Reserve   (China)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Cloning; Kininogen; Molecular evolution; Peptides

Indexed keywords

ARGINYLPROLYLPROLYLGLYCYLPHENYLALANYLSERYLPROLYLPHENYLALANYLARGINYLVALYLALA NYLPROLYLALANYLSERINE; BRADYKININ DERIVATIVE; BRADYKININ[1-8]; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RANAKININ N; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; FROG; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ODORRANA; RANA SCHMACKERI;

EID: 0041428178     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(03)00166-9     Document Type: Article

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