Neurexophilins Form a Conserved Family of Neuropeptide-Like Glycoproteins
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Neurexophilins form a conserved family of neuropeptide-like glycoproteins.
Neurexophilin was discovered as a neuronal glycoprotein that is copurified with neurexin Ialpha during affinity chromatography on immobilized alpha-latrotoxin (Petrenko et al., 1996). We have now investigated how neurexophilin interacts with neurexins, whether it is post-translationally processed by site-specific cleavage similar to neuropeptides, and whether related neuropeptide-like proteins ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-10-03630.1998