Silefrin, a sodefrin-like pheromone in the abdominal gland of the sword-tailed newt, Cynops ensicauda

Kazutoshi Yamamoto*, Yuka Kawai, Tomoko Hayashi, Yoshihide Ohe, Hiroaki Hayashi, Fumiyo Toyoda, Genri Kawahara, Takeo Iwata, Sakaé Kikuyama

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    Sodefrin-like female-attracting pheromone was purified from the abdominal glands of male sword-tailed newts, Cynops ensicauda, by gel-filtration chromatography and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The final product comprises 10 amino acid residues with the sequence SILSKDAQLK which coincided with the sequence deduced from its precursor cDNA. This peptide was designated silefrin. The sequence of silefrin was different from that of sodefrin by two amino acid residues, with substitutions Leu for Pro and Gln for Leu at positions 3 and 8, respectively. Both native and synthetic silefrin exerted an equipotent activity in attracting conspecific females. Copyright (C) 2000 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.

    本文言語English
    ページ(範囲)267-270
    ページ数4
    ジャーナルFEBS Letters
    472
    2-3
    DOI
    出版ステータスPublished - 2000 4月 28

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • 生化学
    • 生物理学
    • 分子生物学

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