Neuropeptide Y (NPY) cleaving enzymes: Structural and functional homologues of dipeptidyl peptidase 4

Peptides

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-268

  Frerker, Nadine ^a   Wagner, Leona ^b   Wolf, Raik ^b   Heiser, Ulrich ^b   Hoffmann, Torsten ^b   Rahfeld, Jens Ulrich ^b   Schade, Jutta ^a   Karl, Tim ^a,c,d   Naim, Hassan Y ^e   Alfalah, Marwan ^e   Demuth, Hans Ulrich ^b   von Hörsten, Stephan ^a,f  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b PROBIODRUG AG   (Germany)

^c Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders   (Australia)

^d GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cleavage; Confocal lasermicroscopy; Dipeptidyl peptidase 8; Dipeptidyl peptidase 9; Dipeptidyl peptidase II; Dipeptidyl peptidase IV; DP4 like enzymes; MALDI TOF mass spectrometry; Neuropeptide Y; Prolyl aminopeptidase

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE P; BRAIN EXTRACT; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE 2; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE 8; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE 9; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV INHIBITOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDE Y1 RECEPTOR; PROLINE IMINOPEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DPP4 GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HORMONE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; NPY GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD26; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA PRIMERS; HYDROLYSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 33846691234     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.09.027     Document Type: Article

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