Proteolytic processing of a peptide precursor in Aplysia neuron R14.
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Proteolytic processing of a peptide precursor in Aplysia neuron R14.
The large neurons of the mollusc Aplysia are useful for studying the biogenesis of neuropeptides in single cells. Neuron R14 in the abdominal ganglion synthesizes large quantities of a 10-kDa neuropeptide precursor. The amino acid sequence of this precursor has been defined by analysis of the nucleotide sequence of a cDNA clone. We labeled proteins in vivo by microinjection of radioactive amino...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)38446-6