Published with this product (2)
2010
Peroxisomal Localization of the Proopiome
Romana Höftberger, Markus Kunze, Till Voigtländer, Ursula Unterberger, Günther Regelsberger, Jan Bauer, Fahmy Aboul-Enein, Ferenc Garzuly, Sonja Forss-Petter, Hanno Bernheimer, Johannes Berger, and Herbert Budka
2010Endocrinology, 151: 4801 - 4810
Peroxisomal Localization of the Proopiomelanocortin-Derived Peptides β-Lipotropin and β-Endorphin
Romana Höftberger, Markus Kunze, Till Voigtländer, Ursula Unterberger, Günther Regelsberger, Jan Bauer, Fahmy Aboul-Enein, Ferenc Garzuly, Sonja Forss-Petter, Hanno Bernheimer, Johannes Berger, and Herbert Budka
doi:10.1210/en.2010-0249
Description
beta-Lipotropin is a 90-amino acid polypeptide that is the carboxy-terminal fragment of POMC. It stimulates melanocytes to produce melanin, and can also be cleaved into smaller peptides including opioid peptides: gamma-lipotropin, alpha-MSH, beta-MSH, gamma-MSH, alpha-endorphin, beta-endorphin, gamma-endorphin and met-enkephalin.

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