Isolation and identification of three RFamide-immunoreactive peptides from the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
Three RFamide-immunoreactive peptides were isolated from headless Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Their structures were identified by Edman degradation or a combination of amino acid composition analysis and mass spectrometry to be: Aedes head peptide 1 [23], [Pro4]-Aedes head peptide (i.e., pGlu-Arg-Pro-Pro-Ser-Leu-Lys-Thr- Arg-Phe-amide), and Leu-Lys-Thr-Arg-Phe-amide which have been named Aedes head peptides 3 and 4, respectively.
Veenstra
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Department of Entomology and Center for Insect Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA. veenstra@invertebre.u-bordeaux.fr
D000330:Aedes / Q000737:chemistry*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D000818:Animals; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009479:Neuropeptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
D000596:Amino Acids; D009479:Neuropeptides; C058047:arginylphenylalaninamide