Newly identified water-borne protein pheromones interact with attractin to stimulate mate attraction in Aplysia

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 597-606

  Cummins, Scott F ^a   Nichols, Amy E ^a   Schein, Catherine H ^a   Nagle, Gregg T ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aplysia; Attractin; Enticin; Fertilin; Fibrillin; Pheromone; Seductin; Temptin

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIN; ENTICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SEDUCTIN; SEX PHEROMONE; TEMPTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APLYSIA; BINDING AFFINITY; EGG; EGG LAYING; HORMONE ACTION; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVIPOSITION; PHEROMONES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

APLYSIA; APLYSIA BRASILIANA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33644667225     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2005.08.026     Document Type: Review

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