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SUBMITTER: Furukawa Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6763844 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Furukawa Y Y Nakamaru K K Wakayama H H Fujisawa Y Y Minakata H H Ohta S S Morishita F F Matsushima O O Li L L Romanova E E Sweedler J V JV Park J H JH Romero A A Cropper E C EC Dembrow N C NC Jing J J Weiss K R KR Vilim F S FS
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20011001 20
To identify neuropeptides that have a broad spectrum of actions on the feeding system of Aplysia, we searched for bioactive peptides that are present in both the gut and the CNS. We identified a family of structurally related nonapeptides and decapeptides (enterins) that are present in the gut and CNS of Aplysia, and most of which share the HSFVamide sequence at the C terminus. The structure of the enterin precursor deduced from cDNA cloning predicts 35 copies of 20 different enterins. Northern ...[more]