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- * Neuromedin U signature *
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- Neuromedin U (NmU) [1] is a vertebrate peptide which stimulates uterine smooth
- muscle contraction and cause selective vasoconstriction. Like most other
- active peptides, it is proteolytically processed from a larger precursor
- protein. The final peptides are from 8 (NmU-8) to 25 (NmU-25) residues long
- and are C-terminally amidated.
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- The sequence of the C-terminal extremity of NmU is extremely well conserved
- [2] in mammals, birds and amphibians. We have used the last seven residues as
- a signature pattern.
-
- -Consensus pattern: F-[LIVMF]-F-R-P-R-N
- [N is amidated]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: June 1994 / First entry.
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- [ 1] Domin J., Polak J.M., Bloom S.R.
- Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 547:391-403(1988).
- [ 2] Domin J., Benito-Orfila M.A., Nandha K.A., Aitken A., Bloom S.R.
- Regul. Pept. 41:1-8(1992).
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