Obestatin conformational features: A strategy to unveil obestatin's biological role?

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 363, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 500-505

  Scrima, Mario ^a   Campiglia, Pietro ^a   Esposito, Cinzia ^a   Gomez Monterrey, Isabel ^b   Novellino, Ettore ^b   D'Ursi, Anna Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conformational analysis; GPCR ligand; NMR; Obesity; Obestatin; Structure in membrane mimetic

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LIGAND; NEUROPEPTIDE; OBESTATIN; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OBESITY; PHARMACOPHORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GHRELIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34848900433     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.08.200     Document Type: Article

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