Long-sarafotoxins: Characterization of a new family of endothelin-like peptides

Peptides

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1243-1251

  Hayashi, Mirian A F ^a   Ligny Lemaire, Caroline ^b   Wollberg, Zvi ^c   Wery, Michaël ^b   Galat, Andrzej ^b   Ogawa, Tomohisa ^e   Muller, Bruno H ^b   Lamthanh, Hung ^b   Doljansky, Yvon ^f   Bdolah, Avner ^c   Stöcklin, Reto ^d   Ducancel, Frédéric ^b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b CE de Saclay 91191 Cedex ^*  (France)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d ATHERIS LABORATORIES   (Switzerland)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Latoxan   (France)

Author keywords

cDNA; complementary deoxyribonucleic acid; endothelin; ET; HPLC; l SRTX; long sarafotoxin; messenger ribonucleic acid; poly (A+) RNA or mRNA; sarafotoxin; SDS PAGE; sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; SRTX

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ENDOTHELIN; ISOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE; SARAFOTOXIN; VENOM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELINS; HEART RATE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RABBITS; SNAKES; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VIPER VENOMS;

ATRACTASPIS; ATRACTASPIS MICROLEPIDOTA ANDERSONI; ATRACTASPIS MICROLEPIDOTA MICROLEPIDOTA; SERPENTES;

EID: 4444356635     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2004.05.010     Document Type: Article

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