Characterization of GdFFD, a D-amino acid-containing neuropeptide that functions as an extrinsic modulator of the Aplysia feeding circuit

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 32837-32851

  Bai, Lu ^a   Livnat, Itamar ^a   Romanova, Elena V ^a   Alexeeva, Vera ^b   Yau, Peter M ^a   Vilim, Ferdinand S ^b   Weiss, Klaudiusz R ^b   Jing, Jian ^b,c   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^a  

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

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; APLYSIA CALIFORNICA; EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION; FRAGMENTATION ANALYSIS; IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMITED INFORMATION; POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS; STEREO-SELECTIVE;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOINFORMATICS; ISOMERS; PEPTIDES;

FEEDING;

ACHATIN 1; GDFFD PEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PHENYLALANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHATINA FULICA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROPOD; GENETIC CODE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; APLYSIA; D-AMINO ACID-CONTAINING PEPTIDES; EPIMER; INVERTEBRATES; MALDI-TOF/TOF MS; MASS SPECTROMETRY (MS); PEPTIDES; POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION; STEREOSELECTIVE;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84887840919     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.486670     Document Type: Article

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