Kassina senegalensis skin tachykinins: Molecular cloning of kassinin and (Thr2, Ile9)-kassinin biosynthetic precursor cDNAs and comparative bioactivity of mature tachykinins on the smooth muscle of rat urinary bladder

Biochimie

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 613-619

  Wang, Lei ^a   Zhou, Mei ^a   Lynch, Laura ^a   Chen, Tianbao ^a   Walker, Brian ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Cloning; Precursor; Skin; Smooth muscle; Tachykinin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; KASSININ; KASSININ[9 ISOLEUCINE 2 THREONINE]; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; TACHYKININ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FROG; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN SECRETION; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; KASSININ; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TACHYKININS; URINARY BLADDER;

AMPHIBIA; KASSINA SENEGALENSIS; PHYSALAEMUS FUSCOMACULATUS; RANA GRAHAMI; RATTUS;

EID: 64049091849     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: 61831638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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