Altered neuropeptide profile of Caenorhabditis elegans lacking the chaperone protein 7B2 as analyzed by mass spectrometry

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4288-4292

  Husson, Steven J ^a   Schoofs, Liliane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

FLP; MALDI TOF MS; Mass spectrometry; Neuropeptide; NLP; Peptidomics

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENES, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROENDOCRINE SECRETORY PROTEIN 7B2; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 34548120751     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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