First survey and functional annotation of prohormone and convertase genes in the pig

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Porter, Kenneth I ^a   Southey, Bruce R ^a   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^a   Rodriguez Zas, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleavage; Gene expression profile; Neuropeptide; Pig genome; Prohormone; Prohormone convertase

Indexed keywords

AMYLIN; CORTISTATIN; FURIN; HORMONE PRECURSOR; INTERMEDIN; NEUROPEPTIDE S; PARATHYROID HORMONE; TACHYKININ; UROCORTIN; UROCORTIN II; UROCORTIN III;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CALCITONIN STIMULATING PEPTIDE 2 GENE; CORTISTATIN GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; INSULIN LIKE 5 GENE; INTERMEDIN GENE; ISLET AMYLOID POLYPEPTIDE GENE; NEUROPEPTIDE S GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARATHYROID HORMONE GENE; PROKINETICIN 2 GENE; PROLACTIN RELEASING PEPTIDE GENE; QRFP GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWINE; TACHYKININ 4 GENE; UROCORTIN 2 GENE; UROCORTIN 3 GENE; UROCORTIN GENE; UROTENSIN 2 RELATED PEPTIDE GENE;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; HORMONES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; SUS SCROFA;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84868685156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-582     Document Type: Article

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