The genes for the frog skin peptides GLa, xenopsin, levitide and caerulein contain a homologous export exon encoding a signal sequence and part of an amphiphilic peptide.

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  European Journal of Biochemistry

• Publication date

  1989-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1432-1033.1989.TB14552.XPMID 2465151
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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