Publication Date:
1984-11-16
Description:
The Streptococcus faecalis sex pheromone cPD1, which induces a mating response in cells harboring the conjugative plasmid pPD1, has been isolated and its structure determined. It was found to have a molecular weight of 912, and its amino acid sequence was H-Phe-Leu-Val-Met-Phe-Leu-Ser-Gly-OH. A synthetic octapeptide showed the same biological activity and chromatographic behavior as the isolated cPD1. Pheromone activity was detectable at a concentration of approximately 4 X 10(-11)M.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Suzuki, A -- Mori, M -- Sakagami, Y -- Isogai, A -- Fujino, M -- Kitada, C -- Craig, R A -- Clewell, D B -- AI10318/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- DE02731/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Nov 16;226(4676):849-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6436978" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Enterococcus faecalis/*physiology
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Oligopeptides/*isolation & purification
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Pheromones/*isolation & purification
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Plasmids
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Sex Attractants/*isolation & purification
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
