Skin bradykinin-related peptides (BRPs) and their biosynthetic precursors (kininogens): Comparisons between various taxa of Chinese and North American ranid frogs

Peptides

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 393-403

  Sin, YeeTing ^a   Zhou, Mei ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Chen, Tianbao ^a   Walker, Brian ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Bradykinin; Cloning; Kininogen; Precursor; Skin

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; KININOGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FROG; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRADYKININ; CHINA; KININOGENS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HUIA (PROPER); LITHOBATES; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA CHENSINENSIS; RANA PALUSTRIS; RANIDAE;

EID: 39649123714     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2007.11.012     Document Type: Article

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