Structural and functional diversity of proopiomelanocortin in fish with special reference to barfin flounder

Peptides

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1374-1382

  Takahashi, Akiyoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Yuki ^a   Amano, Masafumi ^a   Yamanome, Takeshi ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Iwate Inland Fisheries Technology Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Background color; Endorphin; Flounder; Gene expression; Melanocortin receptor; Melanocyte stimulating hormone; Pituitary; Primary structure; Proopiomelanocortin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ENERGY BALANCE; FLOUNDER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HYPOPHYSIS PARS DISTALIS; LIPOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; FISH PROTEINS; FISHES; FLOUNDER; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN;

AMPHIBIA; PLEURONECTOIDEI; TELEOSTEI; VERASPER MOSERI;

EID: 67349239032     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.04.014     Document Type: Review

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