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Functional analysis of a mutated analogue of the crustacean hyperglycaemic hormone from the crayfish Pontastacus leptodactylus.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological genetics and physiology - 1 Feb 2015
Mosco Alessandro, Zlatev Ventsislav, Guarnaccia Corrado, Giulianini Piero G
Abstract excerpt
The crustacean hyperglycaemic hormone (CHH), a pleiotropic neuropeptide, belongs to a family of structurally related peptides, having six cysteine residues in conserved positions forming three disulphide bridges, and regulating several physiological processes in crustaceans and insects. Structure-activity studies have shown that amidation of the C-terminus is important to confer biological activity to CHH. In...
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