TACHYKININ PEPTIDES, PRECURSOR PEPTIDES THEREOF AND GENES ENCODING THE SAME

摘要

Tachykinin peptide isolated and purified from the posterior salivary gland Octopus vulgaris which is mollusc. The tachykinin peptide provides a new approach for developing medicaments and pesticides through studies on the structural activity correlation at the molecular level, is characterized by: (1) number of an amino acid resides is 12; (2) N terminal of the peptide is Lys; (3) an amino acid sequence of 5 amino acids from C terminal is represented by the following amino acid sequence (I), IMAGE (wherein, Xaa is Val, Ile, Phe or Tyr), especially following amino acid sequence (1) and (2) are provided: IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE